FEDAYEEN is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. FEDAYEEN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FEDAYEEN?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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 FEDAYEEN is to know. It scores 15 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FEDAYEEN
No single letter turns FEDAYEEN into another word.
How FEDAYEEN scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in FEDAYEEN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| e | 3 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so FEDAYEEN has to be built on the board across turns.
What does FEDAYEEN mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
Irregular Arab fighters, especially guerrillas who operated against Israel; the plural of fedayee.
The word fedayeen comes from Arabic and was widely used in news reports of the mid-twentieth century. Which side calls such fighters heroes or enemies depends on the speaker, so the word is best kept to descriptive history.
How FEDAYEEN is used
Fedayeen appears mostly in history books and news archives about Middle Eastern conflicts.
- Reports from the border described raids by the fedayeen.
- The book traces how the fedayeen were organised in the 1950s.
- Camps of the fedayeen were located close to the frontier.
- Newspapers of that decade often wrote of the fedayeen.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FEDAYEEN and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FEDAYEEN
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Common questions about FEDAYEEN
- Is FEDAYEEN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FEDAYEEN, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FEDAYEEN worth?
- FEDAYEEN is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FEDAYEEN mean?
- Irregular Arab fighters, especially guerrillas who operated against Israel; the plural of fedayee.
- What letters can be added to FEDAYEEN?
- No single letter can be added to FEDAYEEN to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of FEDAYEEN:
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