ENTAILMENT is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. ENTAILMENT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ENTAILMENT?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ENTAILMENT is to know. It scores 12 from 10 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ENTAILMENT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
entailmentsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ENTAILMENT scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in ENTAILMENT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ENTAILMENT has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ENTAILMENT mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A logical consequence that must follow from a statement, or the legal restriction of who may inherit an estate.
In logic, an entailment is what is bound to be true if a claim is true. In old property law an entailment fixed an estate on a chain of heirs so it could not be sold.
How ENTAILMENT is used
Used in logic and linguistics, and in historical or legal talk of inheritance.
- One clear entailment of the rule is that everyone pays.
- The entailment of the estate kept it in the family.
- Linguists test each sentence for entailment.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ENTAILMENT and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ENTAILMENT
1 longer words begin with ENTAILMENT.
Shorter words from the letters in ENTAILMENT
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Common questions about ENTAILMENT
- Is ENTAILMENT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ENTAILMENT, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ENTAILMENT worth?
- ENTAILMENT is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ENTAILMENT mean?
- A logical consequence that must follow from a statement, or the legal restriction of who may inherit an estate.
- What letters can be added to ENTAILMENT?
- ENTAILMENT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of ENTAILMENT:
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