CESS is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. CESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CESS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CESS is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CESS
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
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How CESS scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in CESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 27,231.
What does CESS mean in Scrabble?
noun
legalBritishIndian English
A tax or levy imposed for a particular purpose, especially in Scotland, Ireland or India.
A cess is a compulsory charge collected by an authority, often earmarked for a specific use such as roads, education or flood relief, rather than going into general taxation. The word is still current in Indian administrative and legal English, where new cesses are regularly announced alongside income tax.
How CESS is used
Chiefly legal and administrative usage; frequent in Indian English news and government documents, and historically in Scottish and Irish taxation.
- The government introduced a new cess to fund disaster relief.
- Landowners once paid a local cess toward the upkeep of roads.
- The budget added a small cess on top of the existing tax rate.
- Villagers complained about the rising water cess.
- The old records list every cess collected in the parish that year.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CESS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CESS
The 4 tiles of CESS in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CESS
16 longer words begin with CESS.
Words ending in CESS
15 words end in CESS. Useful as a back hook: play CESS onto a word already on the board.
Words with CESS inside
Showing 24 of 252 words that contain CESS somewhere in the middle. Words that start with CESS are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CESS
Common questions about CESS
- Is CESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CESS, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CESS worth?
- CESS is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CESS mean?
- A tax or levy imposed for a particular purpose, especially in Scotland, Ireland or India.
- What letters can be added to CESS?
- CESS takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of CESS:
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