HORRENT is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. HORRENT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HORRENT?
| 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: 49 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HORRENT is to know. It scores 10 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HORRENT
No single letter turns HORRENT into another word.
How HORRENT scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in HORRENT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 154,394.
What does HORRENT mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literaryarchaic
Standing stiffly upright like bristles, or bristling with points.
Poets used horrent for a hedgehog's spines or a forest of spears raised in a line. Because horrent is so rare today, readers usually meet it only in older verse.
How HORRENT is used
Horrent is a rare literary word found in old poetry.
- The horrent spears of the army glittered in the sun.
- He wrote of a horrent crest of feathers on the bird's head.
- A horrent thicket of thorns blocked the path.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HORRENT and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of HORRENT
The 7 tiles of HORRENT in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in HORRENT
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Common questions about HORRENT
- Is HORRENT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HORRENT, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HORRENT worth?
- HORRENT is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HORRENT mean?
- Standing stiffly upright like bristles, or bristling with points.
- What letters can be added to HORRENT?
- No single letter can be added to HORRENT to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of HORRENT:
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