LIENTERY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. LIENTERY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LIENTERY?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LIENTERY is to know. It scores 11 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LIENTERY
No single letter turns LIENTERY into another word.
How LIENTERY scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in LIENTERY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so LIENTERY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does LIENTERY mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicalarchaic
A form of diarrhoea in which food passes through the body almost undigested.
Old physicians named lientery when a patient's meals emerged little changed. The word survives mostly in historical medical texts.
How LIENTERY is used
Lientery is obsolete in modern medicine and appears in older books.
- The physician diagnosed lientery after the long fever.
- Lientery left the traveller weak and thin.
- The treatise described lientery in a single paragraph.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LIENTERY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of LIENTERY
The 8 tiles of LIENTERY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in LIENTERY
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Common questions about LIENTERY
- Is LIENTERY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LIENTERY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LIENTERY worth?
- LIENTERY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LIENTERY mean?
- A form of diarrhoea in which food passes through the body almost undigested.
- What letters can be added to LIENTERY?
- No single letter can be added to LIENTERY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of LIENTERY:
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