NOCENT is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. NOCENT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NOCENT?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NOCENT is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NOCENT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
nocentsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How NOCENT scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in NOCENT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 2 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 68,985.
What does NOCENT mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaicliterary
Harmful in effect, or guilty in law — the historical opposite of innocent, now largely fallen out of use.
Legal and literary writers once reached for nocent when they needed a plain word for a person found culpable, or for a substance whose effects caused injury, such as a nocent draught given to weaken a rival. Because its far more common relative innocent already covered ordinary speech, English never developed a separate everyday word for the reverse idea, and nocent slipped into obscurity while innocent thrived. Today the word turns up almost only in older texts, glossaries of archaic vocabulary, or writing that deliberately imitates an old-fashioned style.
How NOCENT is used
Archaic and literary; rarely used outside older texts or deliberately old-fashioned writing.
- The old sermon warned against nocent habits that harm both body and soul.
- The judge in the tale finally declared the accused man nocent.
- Older herbals list which plants are nocent and which are safe to handle.
- The poem contrasts a nocent tongue with an innocent heart.
- Few readers today recognize nocent as a word at all, let alone its meaning.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NOCENT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with NOCENT
2 longer words begin with NOCENT.
Shorter words from the letters in NOCENT
Common questions about NOCENT
- Is NOCENT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NOCENT, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NOCENT worth?
- NOCENT is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NOCENT mean?
- Harmful in effect, or guilty in law — the historical opposite of innocent, now largely fallen out of use.
- What letters can be added to NOCENT?
- NOCENT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of NOCENT:
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