HANSA is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. HANSA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HANSA?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HANSA is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HANSA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
hansasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HANSA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HANSA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does HANSA mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A medieval association or guild formed by merchants or trading towns, especially in northern Europe, for mutual protection and commercial advantage.
Towns that joined a hansa pooled resources to protect trade routes from piracy and unfair tolls, and to negotiate favourable terms with foreign rulers on behalf of all their merchants together. The most famous example grew into the Hanseatic League, a powerful network of northern German and Baltic cities that dominated trade across northern Europe for centuries. Membership in a hansa gave individual merchants access to warehouses, legal protection, and shared intelligence about markets that no single trader could arrange alone. Historians still study surviving hansa records to understand how medieval long-distance trade was organised before modern banking and shipping existed.
How HANSA is used
A historical term used mainly in discussions of medieval European trade and the Hanseatic League.
- Northern German towns formed a hansa to protect their trade routes.
- Historians traced the rise and fall of the hansa over three centuries.
- Membership in the hansa brought legal protection to travelling merchants.
- The old hansa records list dues paid by each member town.
- A hansa negotiated shared trading rights with foreign rulers.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HANSA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HANSA
9 longer words begin with HANSA.
Words with HANSA inside
6 words contain HANSA in the middle. Words that start with HANSA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HANSA
Common questions about HANSA
- Is HANSA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HANSA, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HANSA worth?
- HANSA is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HANSA mean?
- A medieval association or guild formed by merchants or trading towns, especially in northern Europe, for mutual protection and commercial advantage.
- What letters can be added to HANSA?
- HANSA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HANSA:
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