LIMEN is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. LIMEN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LIMEN?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LIMEN is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LIMEN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
limensChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How LIMEN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in LIMEN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What does LIMEN mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The smallest intensity of a stimulus that a person can just detect, or the point at which a sensation is barely perceived; a sensory threshold.
Psychologists use limen to mark the exact boundary between a stimulus too weak to notice and one that just barely registers, whether that stimulus is a sound, a light, a touch, or a taste. Measuring a limen usually means repeating a test many times at slightly different strengths until researchers can locate the point where detection becomes reliable. The related adjective subliminal, meaning below the limen, borrows directly from this same idea of a perceptual boundary. Outside psychology and physiology the word limen is rarely used in everyday speech.
How LIMEN is used
A specialized term from psychology and sensory physiology, encountered mainly in scientific writing about perception.
- Researchers lowered the volume step by step to find the listener's limen for that tone.
- A scent below the limen goes completely unnoticed even by a trained nose.
- The experiment measured how a person's limen for pain changes with fatigue.
- Advertisers cannot legally hide a message below the audience's limen.
- Her limen for detecting faint light was tested in a darkened room.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LIMEN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with LIMEN
1 longer words begin with LIMEN.
Words ending in LIMEN
2 words end in LIMEN. Useful as a back hook: play LIMEN onto a word already on the board.
Words with LIMEN inside
Showing 24 of 30 words that contain LIMEN somewhere in the middle. Words that start with LIMEN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in LIMEN
Common questions about LIMEN
- Is LIMEN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LIMEN, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LIMEN worth?
- LIMEN is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LIMEN mean?
- The smallest intensity of a stimulus that a person can just detect, or the point at which a sensation is barely perceived; a sensory threshold.
- What letters can be added to LIMEN?
- LIMEN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of LIMEN:
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