DIRENESS is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. DIRENESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DIRENESS?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DIRENESS is to know. It scores 9 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DIRENESS
No single letter turns DIRENESS into another word.
How DIRENESS scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in DIRENESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so DIRENESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does DIRENESS mean in Scrabble?
noun
The quality of being extremely serious, urgent or terrible.
Direness is used to stress how bad a situation really is, often with a tone of warning. Writers pair it with words like poverty, need or warning. The direness of a case is what makes the people involved act at once.
How DIRENESS is used
Mostly written, used for emphasis on the direness of circumstances.
- The direness of the famine shocked the world.
- No one grasped the direness of the situation until night fell.
- Doctors spoke gravely about the direness of his condition.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DIRENESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DIRENESS
1 longer words begin with DIRENESS.
Shorter words from the letters in DIRENESS
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Common questions about DIRENESS
- Is DIRENESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DIRENESS, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DIRENESS worth?
- DIRENESS is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DIRENESS mean?
- The quality of being extremely serious, urgent or terrible.
- What letters can be added to DIRENESS?
- No single letter can be added to DIRENESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of DIRENESS:
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