HANCE is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. HANCE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HANCE?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HANCE is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HANCE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HANCE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HANCE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What stands out about HANCE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does HANCE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
In architecture, the part of an arch where the curve rises more steeply from its base before flattening out toward the crown, sometimes known as the haunch of an arch.
A hance appears in elliptical and basket-handle arches, where the curvature changes from a tight radius near the springing to a gentler one near the top, giving the arch its distinctive flattened shape. Builders and architectural historians use hance to describe this transition point, and the same shape shows up in bridge design and in certain ship hulls, where a hance marks a similar change in curvature.
How HANCE is used
A technical architectural term, used mainly in descriptions of arch and bridge design.
- The architect pointed out the hance where the arch's curve began to flatten.
- Engineers measured the hance carefully before pouring the bridge's concrete form.
- The old church featured an elliptical arch with a pronounced hance on each side.
- A drawing in the textbook labeled the hance, crown, and springing of the arch.
- Shipwrights once used hance to describe a similar curve along a vessel's side.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HANCE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of HANCE
The 5 tiles of HANCE in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with HANCE
1 longer words begin with HANCE.
Words ending in HANCE
8 words end in HANCE. Useful as a back hook: play HANCE onto a word already on the board.
Words with HANCE inside
Showing 24 of 33 words that contain HANCE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with HANCE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HANCE
Common questions about HANCE
- Is HANCE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HANCE, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HANCE worth?
- HANCE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HANCE mean?
- In architecture, the part of an arch where the curve rises more steeply from its base before flattening out toward the crown, sometimes known as the haunch of an arch.
- What letters can be added to HANCE?
- HANCE takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HANCE:
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