JACET is not a Scrabble word — it is valid only in Words with Friends
No for Scrabble. JACET is in none of the Scrabble word lists, but Words with Friends accepts it: that game keeps its own list, and it includes short forms that the paper dictionaries never carried. Worth 17 points there.
Which word lists accept JACET?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Not listed |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful JACET is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JACET
No single letter turns JACET into another word.
How JACET scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in JACET, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does JACET mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A brief inscription commemorating a dead person, especially one traditionally opening with the Latin word for he lies here.
A jacet takes its name from the Latin phrase hic jacet, meaning here lies, which for centuries opened memorial inscriptions on tombs and monuments. Over time the single word came to stand for the whole epitaph, or for the type of commemorative text it introduced. The term is now rare outside discussions of monumental inscriptions and older graveyard customs.
How JACET is used
Rare and mainly historical; encountered chiefly in writing about tombstones, monuments and Latin epitaph traditions.
- The old jacet on the chapel wall was barely legible after centuries of weather.
- Scholars studied the Latin jacet carved above the knight's tomb.
- A short jacet named the abbot and the year of his death.
- The historian traced the wording of each jacet back to its Latin original.
- Moss had covered most of the jacet cut into the stone slab.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JACET and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in JACET
Common questions about JACET
- Is JACET valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts JACET, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is JACET worth?
- JACET is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JACET mean?
- A brief inscription commemorating a dead person, especially one traditionally opening with the Latin word for he lies here.
- What letters can be added to JACET?
- No single letter can be added to JACET to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of JACET:
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