GENTEELNESS is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. GENTEELNESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GENTEELNESS?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GENTEELNESS is to know. It scores 12 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GENTEELNESS
No single letter turns GENTEELNESS into another word.
How GENTEELNESS scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in GENTEELNESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 4 | 12 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so GENTEELNESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about GENTEELNESS
- The letter E appears four times in GENTEELNESS.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does GENTEELNESS mean in Scrabble?
noun
Refined, polite behaviour that suggests good breeding, sometimes to an overdone degree.
Genteelness can be admired as elegance or mocked as pretence. It belongs to a world of tea cups, careful speech and strict manners.
How GENTEELNESS is used
Genteelness is used in descriptions of manners and social class, often with gentle irony.
- The genteelness of the tea room put visitors on their best behaviour.
- Her genteelness hid a sharp sense of humour.
- The novel pokes fun at the genteelness of small-town society.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GENTEELNESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of GENTEELNESS
The 11 tiles of GENTEELNESS in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with GENTEELNESS
1 longer words begin with GENTEELNESS.
Shorter words from the letters in GENTEELNESS
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Common questions about GENTEELNESS
- Is GENTEELNESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GENTEELNESS, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GENTEELNESS worth?
- GENTEELNESS is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GENTEELNESS mean?
- Refined, polite behaviour that suggests good breeding, sometimes to an overdone degree.
- What letters can be added to GENTEELNESS?
- No single letter can be added to GENTEELNESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of GENTEELNESS:
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