LENITE is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. LENITE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LENITE?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LENITE is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 8.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LENITE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How LENITE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in LENITE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 13,936.
What does LENITE mean in Scrabble?
verb
technical
To undergo or bring about lenition, the weakening of a consonant sound in speech.
A stop can turn into a softer fricative, or drop out further still, and the word lenite names the act of undergoing or causing exactly that kind of change. Linguists reach for it most often when describing Celtic languages such as Irish and Scottish Gaelic, where an initial consonant regularly lenites after certain words, changing the spelling as well as the sound. The same idea applies more loosely to sound shifts in other languages, where a consonant between vowels grows weaker over time. Outside phonetics and Celtic grammar, lenite is a specialist's word rather than one heard in daily speech.
How LENITE is used
Technical; used in linguistics, especially in descriptions of Celtic consonant mutation.
- The initial consonant of the noun lenites after the possessive pronoun.
- A stop can lenite into a fricative between two vowels.
- Grammars of Irish list exactly which words cause the next consonant to lenite.
- Historical linguists trace how certain sounds lenited over several centuries.
- Students learning Gaelic spend real time on when a sound lenites and when it does not.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LENITE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with LENITE
2 longer words begin with LENITE.
Shorter words from the letters in LENITE
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Common questions about LENITE
- Is LENITE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LENITE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LENITE worth?
- LENITE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LENITE mean?
- To undergo or bring about lenition, the weakening of a consonant sound in speech.
- What letters can be added to LENITE?
- LENITE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of LENITE:
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