ENFETTER is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. ENFETTER is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ENFETTER?
| 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: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ENFETTER is to know. It scores 11 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ENFETTER
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
enfettersChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ENFETTER scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in ENFETTER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 3 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ENFETTER has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ENFETTER mean in Scrabble?
verb
literaryarchaic
To bind a person or animal with chains or shackles so that it cannot move freely.
Poets prefer enfetter to the plain word fetter when they want a heavier, more dramatic ring. It is often stretched from real chains to rules, habits or fears that hold a mind captive.
How ENFETTER is used
Found chiefly in literary or old-fashioned writing, both for literal shackling and for figurative restraint.
- The jailers would enfetter each prisoner before the long march.
- Old superstitions continued to enfetter the village for generations.
- He refused to let debt enfetter his ambitions.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ENFETTER and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ENFETTER
3 longer words begin with ENFETTER.
Shorter words from the letters in ENFETTER
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Common questions about ENFETTER
- Is ENFETTER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ENFETTER, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ENFETTER worth?
- ENFETTER is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ENFETTER mean?
- To bind a person or animal with chains or shackles so that it cannot move freely.
- What letters can be added to ENFETTER?
- ENFETTER takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of ENFETTER:
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