LENTEN is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. LENTEN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LENTEN?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LENTEN is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LENTEN
No single letter turns LENTEN into another word.
How LENTEN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in LENTEN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 50,171.
What does LENTEN mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Relating to Lent, the Christian season of fasting before Easter; also, plain and scanty, like the food eaten during a fast.
Lenten describes anything proper to the season, from Lenten services and Lenten music to the calendar of readings that churches follow in the weeks before Easter. Because Lent traditionally called for simple meals without meat or rich food, lenten broadened into a general word for anything meager or plain, even outside a religious setting, as in a lenten budget or a lenten diet. The two senses sit close together: the season gave its name to the adjective, and the adjective then kept the season's association with restraint. Both uses survive today, though the plain-and-scanty sense is now the less common of the two.
How LENTEN is used
Used both in describing the Christian season of Lent and, more loosely, to mean plain or meager.
- The church printed its Lenten schedule of services in February.
- They kept a lenten table that spring, with plain soup and bread.
- A Lenten fast traditionally excludes meat on Fridays.
- His lenten salary left little room for extras that year.
- Choirs rehearse special Lenten music in the weeks before Easter.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LENTEN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in LENTEN
Common questions about LENTEN
- Is LENTEN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LENTEN, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LENTEN worth?
- LENTEN is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LENTEN mean?
- Relating to Lent, the Christian season of fasting before Easter; also, plain and scanty, like the food eaten during a fast.
- What letters can be added to LENTEN?
- No single letter can be added to LENTEN to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of LENTEN:
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