ENTOMB is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. ENTOMB is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ENTOMB?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ENTOMB is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ENTOMB
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
entombsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ENTOMB scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ENTOMB, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 86,231.
What does ENTOMB mean in Scrabble?
verb
To place a body in a tomb, or to bury or trap something beneath a heavy covering.
The first sense belongs to funerals and monuments, where a ruler is entombed in a vault of stone. The second, wider sense covers volcanic ash, rubble or snow that closes over people or objects, as ash did at Pompeii. The word is made from en- and tomb, and an older spelling, intomb, appears in a few dictionaries.
How ENTOMB is used
Both literal, for burials and disasters, and figurative, for being trapped.
- The pharaoh was meant to entomb his treasure with him.
- Ash from the volcano would entomb the city for centuries.
- A landslide threatened to entomb the miners.
- They chose to entomb the old letters in a sealed box.
- Heavy snow can entomb a cabin up to its roof.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ENTOMB and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ENTOMB
5 longer words begin with ENTOMB.
Shorter words from the letters in ENTOMB
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Common questions about ENTOMB
- Is ENTOMB valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ENTOMB, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ENTOMB worth?
- ENTOMB is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ENTOMB mean?
- To place a body in a tomb, or to bury or trap something beneath a heavy covering.
- What letters can be added to ENTOMB?
- ENTOMB takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ENTOMB:
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