DIVORCEMENT is a valid Scrabble word — 19 points
Yes. DIVORCEMENT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 19 points in Scrabble and 23 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DIVORCEMENT?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DIVORCEMENT is to know. It scores 19 from 11 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DIVORCEMENT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
divorcementsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DIVORCEMENT scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in DIVORCEMENT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so DIVORCEMENT has to be built on the board across turns.
What does DIVORCEMENT mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
The legal ending of a marriage, or any complete separation of two things.
Divorcement sounds old-fashioned beside the everyday divorce and is mostly met in older legal or literary writing. It can stretch beyond marriage to describe a clean split between ideas or institutions.
How DIVORCEMENT is used
Divorcement is rare today and mostly appears in historical or formal prose.
- The court granted the divorcement after a long hearing.
- He argued for the divorcement of politics from commerce.
- The novel describes the slow divorcement of two old friends.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DIVORCEMENT and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DIVORCEMENT
1 longer words begin with DIVORCEMENT.
Shorter words from the letters in DIVORCEMENT
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Common questions about DIVORCEMENT
- Is DIVORCEMENT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DIVORCEMENT, where it scores 23 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DIVORCEMENT worth?
- DIVORCEMENT is worth 19 points in Scrabble and 23 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DIVORCEMENT mean?
- The legal ending of a marriage, or any complete separation of two things.
- What letters can be added to DIVORCEMENT?
- DIVORCEMENT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of DIVORCEMENT:
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