Listen is valid Scrabble Word

Is listen a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is listen valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
6 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for LISTEN in dictionary:

VERB:

to try to hear
take notice of and act on what someone says; respond to advice or a request
make an effort to hear something; be alert and ready to hear something
used to urge someone to pay attention to what one is going to say
concentrate on hearing something
To give close attention with the purpose of hearing; to give ear; to hearken; to attend.
To give heed; to yield to advice; to follow admonition; to obey.
To attend to.
hear with intention
listen and pay attention

pay close attention to; give heed to
give one's attention to a sound

NOUN:

an act of listening to something

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to make conscious use of the sense of hearing

Words related to LISTEN

hark11 hearken14 listened9 listener8 listeners9 listening10 listens7

Words that contain LISTEN

glisten8 listens7 glistens9 listened9 listener8 relisten8 glistened11 listeners9 listening10 relistens9 glistening12 listenable12 listenings11 unlistened11 relistened11 unlistening12 relistening12 glisteningly17 listenership17 unlistenable14 listenability18 listenerships18 listenabilities17

How to use LISTEN in a sentence

Very cautiously, I moved onward, stopping, every few steps, to listen.
She slackened her pace therefore, and walked on more quietly, straining her ears to listen, not venturing to look back.
He spoke to me once or twice about another poem of similar character he wanted to read me, which I told him I would listen to and criticize.
Grosse Guelle stated that, as he was nearly ready to return, he wished to say a few words, to which he hoped I would listen.
He offered what he dared, but the Irish leaders would listen to no compromise.
Washington was at dinner, with some guests, and was called from the table to listen to the tidings of ill fortune.
But perhaps it was the very fact that it was familiar made her listen with a certain tenderness.
In this sort of benevolence she was thoroughly cruel, and would listen to nothing that was said to her, because she was convinced that she was managing admirably.
Through the impressive stillness he caught a subdued sound which caused him again to stop in his walk and listen.
Although I cannot take the lead in talking while I am engaged in painting, I can listen while others speak, and work all the better for it.

It needs but to listen to an opera to hear the leading gradations.
I had not to talk myself, but to listen to a man telling me stories better than I could have told them.
He would not listen to our remonstrances on so wild a determination, but flew into a passion if more moderate and reasonable counsels were proposed for his advantage.
Several times Ruth and Alice had expressed a desire to try a little part in one of the dramas, but their father would not listen.
In far Sezchuan, on many nights when sleep was distant, I would lie and listen as he struck upon his piece of hollow bamboo telling me that all was well within our compound.
He got up presently and went to the door to listen for he knew not what.
You must not let him know the place where you listen in.
Now, listen, darling! our engagement, our sweet and solemn engagement, is secret.
But the enraged fisherman would listen to nothing till his own strength failed so completely that he could no longer move his stick.
It is necessary to have the conversation move quickly, for we read with less patience than we listen.
I am well convinced that she will listen to my advice.
We should listen, by way of knowing just how the Legion was now composed.
She could not listen to him with that secret half-guessed.
You listen in, and if the sounds are blurred or not sharp, tune your instrument as I have shown you until you can hear distinctly.
In ungovernable impatience, I open my door and listen.
He would sit up, look and listen, and then lie down again.
How would you like to stay here and work for me? You have good ears, and you could listen for burglars in the night when I am asleep.
You boys and girls should read every one of them, and then read them again, out loud, to your mothers or to anybody else who will listen.
It was my good fortune to sit and listen, more than once, to discussions between these venerable men.
The world has never got time to listen to the explanation.
Thoughts of Gretchen had troubled him in his dreams, and two or three times he had started up to listen, thinking that he heard her calling to him from a distance.

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