LONGNESS is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. LONGNESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LONGNESS?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LONGNESS is to know. It scores 9 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LONGNESS
No single letter turns LONGNESS into another word.
How LONGNESS scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in LONGNESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so LONGNESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does LONGNESS mean in Scrabble?
noun
rare
The quality of being long in size or in time.
Longness is a plain, rarely used noun that names the property itself. Ordinary speech prefers length or duration. Writers occasionally choose longness when they want to stress the quality rather than a measurement.
How LONGNESS is used
Longness is unusual in everyday English and is often replaced by length.
- The longness of the road discouraged them.
- He complained about the longness of the speech.
- A strange longness hung over the afternoon.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LONGNESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with LONGNESS
1 longer words begin with LONGNESS.
Shorter words from the letters in LONGNESS
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Common questions about LONGNESS
- Is LONGNESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LONGNESS, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LONGNESS worth?
- LONGNESS is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LONGNESS mean?
- The quality of being long in size or in time.
- What letters can be added to LONGNESS?
- No single letter can be added to LONGNESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of LONGNESS:
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