HIATUS is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. HIATUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HIATUS?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HIATUS is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HIATUS
No single letter turns HIATUS into another word.
How HIATUS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in HIATUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 76,649.
What does HIATUS mean in Scrabble?
noun
A pause or gap in a sequence, activity or text, or a break between two vowel sounds in neighbouring syllables.
A band may go on hiatus for a few years, a manuscript may have a hiatus where pages are lost, and a career may show a hiatus while someone studies or travels. In phonetics the word names the gap heard in words like "naive", where two vowels meet without a consonant between them. It is borrowed directly from Latin, where it meant an opening or a yawning gap.
How HIATUS is used
Neutral; widely used for planned breaks, especially in music, television and careers.
- The series returned after a two-year hiatus.
- He took a hiatus from teaching to write a book.
- There is a hiatus in the record between 1650 and 1660.
- The word "poet" contains a hiatus between its first two vowels.
- After a brief hiatus, the talks resumed on Monday.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HIATUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of HIATUS
The 6 tiles of HIATUS in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with HIATUS
1 longer words begin with HIATUS.
Shorter words from the letters in HIATUS
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Common questions about HIATUS
- Is HIATUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HIATUS, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HIATUS worth?
- HIATUS is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HIATUS mean?
- A pause or gap in a sequence, activity or text, or a break between two vowel sounds in neighbouring syllables.
- What letters can be added to HIATUS?
- No single letter can be added to HIATUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of HIATUS:
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