NEATH is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. NEATH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NEATH?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NEATH is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NEATH
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How NEATH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in NEATH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,682.
What stands out about NEATH
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does NEATH mean in Scrabble?
preposition
poeticarchaic
A poetic and dialect contraction of beneath, meaning under or below.
Writers of verse have long reached for neath as a shorter, more rhythmic stand-in for the fuller word beneath, useful for fitting a line to a particular metre or for lending a stanza an old-fashioned, elevated tone. The word survives today almost entirely in hymns, ballads, and deliberately old-fashioned or regional writing rather than in ordinary conversation, where the fuller word would sound far more natural. It sometimes appears with a leading apostrophe, as 'neath, marking the missing syllable the way modern readers expect from a shortened form. Neath is also, unrelated to this sense, the name of a town in the industrial valleys of South Wales, though the literary preposition and the place name share only their spelling.
How NEATH is used
Poetic and archaic, met mainly in verse, hymns, and deliberately old-fashioned writing rather than in everyday speech.
- The old cottage stood neath a canopy of oak trees.
- They rested neath the shade of the willow.
- The hymn spoke of resting neath the wings of mercy.
- A hidden spring flowed neath the rocky hillside.
- The poem pictured lovers walking neath a silver moon.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NEATH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of NEATH
The 5 tiles of NEATH in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with NEATH
2 longer words begin with NEATH.
Words ending in NEATH
6 words end in NEATH. Useful as a back hook: play NEATH onto a word already on the board.
Words with NEATH inside
5 words contain NEATH in the middle. Words that start with NEATH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in NEATH
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Common questions about NEATH
- Is NEATH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NEATH, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NEATH worth?
- NEATH is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NEATH mean?
- A poetic and dialect contraction of beneath, meaning under or below.
- What letters can be added to NEATH?
- NEATH takes 3 hooks: 3 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of NEATH:
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