FANTOCCINI is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. FANTOCCINI is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 21 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FANTOCCINI?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FANTOCCINI is to know. It scores 17 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FANTOCCINI
No single letter turns FANTOCCINI into another word.
How FANTOCCINI scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in FANTOCCINI, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| c | 2 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so FANTOCCINI has to be built on the board across turns.
What does FANTOCCINI mean in Scrabble?
noun
rare
Puppets worked by strings, wires or mechanisms, or the show staged with them.
Borrowed from Italian, fantoccini was once the name for the marionette shows that toured fairs and city streets. Today it feels antique and is chosen for a touch of old-world charm.
How FANTOCCINI is used
Fantoccini is a plural form, used in historical or deliberately quaint writing about puppet theatre.
- The street entertainer brought out his fantoccini at dusk.
- Children gathered to watch the fantoccini dance on their strings.
- The museum displays a set of eighteenth-century fantoccini.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FANTOCCINI and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FANTOCCINI
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Common questions about FANTOCCINI
- Is FANTOCCINI valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FANTOCCINI, where it scores 21 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FANTOCCINI worth?
- FANTOCCINI is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 21 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FANTOCCINI mean?
- Puppets worked by strings, wires or mechanisms, or the show staged with them.
- What letters can be added to FANTOCCINI?
- No single letter can be added to FANTOCCINI to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of FANTOCCINI:
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