FIACRE is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. FIACRE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FIACRE?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FIACRE is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FIACRE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
fiacresChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FIACRE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in FIACRE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 51,100.
What does FIACRE mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A small four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage for hire, once common in Paris.
The name comes from the Hotel de Saint Fiacre in Paris, where such carriages were first let out in the seventeenth century; the saint became the patron of cab drivers. A fiacre was the French counterpart of the London hackney coach. It appears often in novels set in nineteenth-century France, usually when a character hails a cab at night.
How FIACRE is used
Historical; used when describing French settings before motor taxis.
- She hailed a fiacre outside the opera.
- The fiacre rattled over the cobbles toward the river.
- A fiacre waited at the corner with its lamps lit.
- He paid the driver of the fiacre and hurried inside.
- Paris once had thousands of fiacre cabs.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FIACRE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of FIACRE
The 6 tiles of FIACRE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with FIACRE
1 longer words begin with FIACRE.
Shorter words from the letters in FIACRE
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Common questions about FIACRE
- Is FIACRE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FIACRE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FIACRE worth?
- FIACRE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FIACRE mean?
- A small four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage for hire, once common in Paris.
- What letters can be added to FIACRE?
- FIACRE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of FIACRE:
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