LENIS is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. LENIS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LENIS?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LENIS is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LENIS
No single letter turns LENIS into another word.
How LENIS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in LENIS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 7,262.
What stands out about LENIS
- The same 5 tiles also spell 5 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 LENIS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
In phonetics, describing a consonant sound produced with relatively weak muscular tension and breath force, as opposed to a fortis sound.
Linguists use lenis and its opposite, fortis, to compare pairs of consonants such as b and p or d and t, where one member of the pair is pronounced with less effort than the other. The plural form lenes is used when talking about more than one such sound in a language.
How LENIS is used
A specialist term from phonetics, used mainly by linguists describing how consonants are articulated, and rarely outside that field.
- The linguist described b as a lenis consonant compared with p.
- In this language, lenis stops are voiced while fortis stops are not.
- Students of phonetics learn to hear the difference between lenis and fortis sounds.
- The paper classified each consonant as either lenis or fortis.
- A lenis articulation uses less muscular effort than a fortis one.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LENIS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of LENIS
The 5 tiles of LENIS in a different order — 5 found.
Words with LENIS inside
Showing 24 of 47 words that contain LENIS somewhere in the middle. Words that start with LENIS are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in LENIS
Common questions about LENIS
- Is LENIS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LENIS, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LENIS worth?
- LENIS is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LENIS mean?
- In phonetics, describing a consonant sound produced with relatively weak muscular tension and breath force, as opposed to a fortis sound.
- What letters can be added to LENIS?
- No single letter can be added to LENIS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of LENIS:
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