CHIASMUS is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. CHIASMUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CHIASMUS?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHIASMUS is to know. It scores 15 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHIASMUS
No single letter turns CHIASMUS into another word.
How CHIASMUS scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in CHIASMUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CHIASMUS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does CHIASMUS mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
A figure of speech in which the second of two parallel phrases repeats the first in reverse order.
The famous line ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country is a chiasmus. The crossed pattern, like the Greek letter chi, gives a sense of balance and surprise.
How CHIASMUS is used
Used in rhetoric and literary criticism.
- The speech ended with a neat chiasmus that everyone remembered.
- Writers use chiasmus to make a phrase stick in the mind.
- Spotting a chiasmus is a classic exercise in a rhetoric class.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHIASMUS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CHIASMUS
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Common questions about CHIASMUS
- Is CHIASMUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CHIASMUS, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CHIASMUS worth?
- CHIASMUS is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHIASMUS mean?
- A figure of speech in which the second of two parallel phrases repeats the first in reverse order.
- What letters can be added to CHIASMUS?
- No single letter can be added to CHIASMUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of CHIASMUS:
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