MURDERESS is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. MURDERESS 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 MURDERESS?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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 MURDERESS is to know. It scores 12 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MURDERESS
No single letter turns MURDERESS into another word.
How MURDERESS scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in MURDERESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so MURDERESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does MURDERESS mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
A woman who has deliberately killed another person.
The feminine ending is now old-fashioned, and modern reporting almost always uses the neutral murderer instead. You meet murderess mostly in Victorian novels, old crime stories and historical accounts of famous trials.
How MURDERESS is used
Mainly literary or historical; current news style prefers the gender-neutral term.
- The novel reveals the murderess only in its final chapter.
- Newspapers of the day called her a cold-blooded murderess.
- The jury found the murderess guilty after a short trial.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MURDERESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MURDERESS
1 longer words begin with MURDERESS.
Shorter words from the letters in MURDERESS
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Common questions about MURDERESS
- Is MURDERESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MURDERESS, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MURDERESS worth?
- MURDERESS is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MURDERESS mean?
- A woman who has deliberately killed another person.
- What letters can be added to MURDERESS?
- No single letter can be added to MURDERESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of MURDERESS:
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