FILMSET is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. FILMSET is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FILMSET?
| 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: 52 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FILMSET is to know. It scores 12 from 7 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FILMSET
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
filmsetsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FILMSET scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in FILMSET, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 385,985.
What does FILMSET mean in Scrabble?
verb
technical
To prepare text for printing by exposing it photographically onto film instead of casting metal type.
Printers began to filmset in the middle of the twentieth century, when photographic machines replaced hot-metal composition. The method let a publisher change type sizes and layouts far more quickly than lead letters allowed.
How FILMSET is used
A printing-trade term, now mostly historical because digital layout replaced film.
- The printer agreed to filmset the whole catalogue by Friday.
- Most newspapers learned to filmset their pages in the nineteen seventies.
- We had to filmset the corrected chapter again.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FILMSET and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of FILMSET
The 7 tiles of FILMSET in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with FILMSET
5 longer words begin with FILMSET.
Shorter words from the letters in FILMSET
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Common questions about FILMSET
- Is FILMSET valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FILMSET, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FILMSET worth?
- FILMSET is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FILMSET mean?
- To prepare text for printing by exposing it photographically onto film instead of casting metal type.
- What letters can be added to FILMSET?
- FILMSET takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of FILMSET:
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