LITERARINESS is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. LITERARINESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LITERARINESS?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LITERARINESS is to know. It scores 12 from 12 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LITERARINESS
No single letter turns LITERARINESS into another word.
How LITERARINESS scores
Face value of the 12 tiles in LITERARINESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so LITERARINESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does LITERARINESS mean in Scrabble?
noun
formal
The quality that makes a piece of writing feel like true literature.
Critics debate what gives a text its literariness: style, imagery, or the way it invites close reading. A news report and a novel may describe the same events, yet only one is felt to have it.
How LITERARINESS is used
Academic term in literary criticism.
- The critic praised the literariness of her prose.
- What gives a text its literariness is still a matter of debate.
- The film adaptation lost much of the book's literariness.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LITERARINESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with LITERARINESS
1 longer words begin with LITERARINESS.
Shorter words from the letters in LITERARINESS
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Common questions about LITERARINESS
- Is LITERARINESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LITERARINESS, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LITERARINESS worth?
- LITERARINESS is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LITERARINESS mean?
- The quality that makes a piece of writing feel like true literature.
- What letters can be added to LITERARINESS?
- No single letter can be added to LITERARINESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 12 letters of LITERARINESS:
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