CRANNIED is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. CRANNIED is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CRANNIED?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CRANNIED is to know. It scores 11 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CRANNIED
No single letter turns CRANNIED into another word.
How CRANNIED scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in CRANNIED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CRANNIED has to be built on the board across turns.
What does CRANNIED mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Full of small cracks, narrow openings or crevices.
Crannied describes old walls and rocks where tiny fissures give plants and insects a foothold. Tennyson's poem about a flower in a crannied wall made the phrase well known.
How CRANNIED is used
Literary, most often paired with wall or rock.
- A fern grew from the crannied wall of the old castle.
- Lizards hid in the crannied rocks by the shore.
- The crannied stone was cold and damp to the touch.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CRANNIED and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CRANNIED
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Common questions about CRANNIED
- Is CRANNIED valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CRANNIED, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CRANNIED worth?
- CRANNIED is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CRANNIED mean?
- Full of small cracks, narrow openings or crevices.
- What letters can be added to CRANNIED?
- No single letter can be added to CRANNIED to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of CRANNIED:
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