CRASIS is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. CRASIS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CRASIS?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CRASIS is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CRASIS
No single letter turns CRASIS into another word.
How CRASIS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CRASIS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 204,399.
What does CRASIS mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
In grammar, the merging of two adjacent vowels, usually at the boundary of two words, into a single long vowel or diphthong.
Crasis happens most often in ancient Greek, where a word ending in a vowel runs into the next word's opening vowel and the two contract into one sound, shortening the pair of words to something closer to one. The effect resembles elision but works differently, treating the fused vowel as belonging to both original words rather than dropping one entirely. Grammarians borrowed the Greek word crasis itself, meaning mixture, to name this specific kind of vowel contraction.
How CRASIS is used
A specialist term in classical and linguistic grammar, rarely used outside that field.
- The textbook explained crasis with several examples from Homeric Greek.
- Students often confuse crasis with simple elision.
- A mark called the coronis shows where crasis has occurred.
- The professor traced the history of crasis in the Attic dialect.
- Crasis fuses two vowels that would otherwise stay separate.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CRASIS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CRASIS
The 6 tiles of CRASIS in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in CRASIS
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Common questions about CRASIS
- Is CRASIS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CRASIS, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CRASIS worth?
- CRASIS is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CRASIS mean?
- In grammar, the merging of two adjacent vowels, usually at the boundary of two words, into a single long vowel or diphthong.
- What letters can be added to CRASIS?
- No single letter can be added to CRASIS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CRASIS:
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