ESSE is a valid Scrabble word — 4 points
Yes. ESSE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 4 points in Scrabble and 4 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ESSE?
| 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: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ESSE is to know. It scores 4 from 4 tiles, takes 6 hooks, and its letters make up 8.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ESSE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ESSE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in ESSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 2 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,902.
What stands out about ESSE
- ESSE is a palindrome: it reads the same in both directions, so it plays the same way whichever end you build from.
- The same 4 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ESSE mean in Scrabble?
noun
legaltechnical
Actual being or existence, as opposed to mere possibility; used chiefly in the Latin legal phrase in esse.
Borrowed straight from the Latin verb meaning to be, esse names actual existence in English legal and philosophical writing. It appears most often in the phrase in esse, describing something that already exists, set against in posse, describing something merely possible.
How ESSE is used
A learned, mainly legal and philosophical term, rare outside those specialist contexts.
- The contract distinguishes a child in esse from one merely in posse.
- The judge asked whether the trust applied only to property in esse.
- Philosophers weighed the esse of a thing against its possible forms.
- The old treatise treats esse and existere as closely linked ideas.
- Lawyers of that era loved to argue about esse versus posse.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ESSE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ESSE
The 4 tiles of ESSE in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with ESSE
22 longer words begin with ESSE.
Words ending in ESSE
Showing 24 of 365 words that end in ESSE. Useful as a back hook: play ESSE onto a word already on the board.
Words with ESSE inside
Showing 24 of 3930 words that contain ESSE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ESSE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ESSE
Common questions about ESSE
- Is ESSE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ESSE, where it scores 4 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ESSE worth?
- ESSE is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ESSE mean?
- Actual being or existence, as opposed to mere possibility; used chiefly in the Latin legal phrase in esse.
- What letters can be added to ESSE?
- ESSE takes 6 hooks: 5 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of ESSE:
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