NOESIS is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. NOESIS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NOESIS?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NOESIS is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NOESIS
Front hooks — 1
anoesisBack hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How NOESIS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in NOESIS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,325.
What stands out about NOESIS
- The same 6 tiles also spell 7 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 NOESIS mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The mental act of understanding or grasping something through reasoning and perception.
Philosophers use noesis for the active side of thinking, the moment a mind actually grasps or reasons about something, as opposed to the object being thought about. In the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl the term became technical, paired with noema for the content grasped, so that every act of noesis has a corresponding object it is directed toward. Outside strict philosophy, the word can simply mean intellectual understanding gained through reason rather than through the senses alone. Noesis therefore names the process of knowing, not the knowledge itself once it is fixed in a belief or a fact.
How NOESIS is used
Formal, technical term from philosophy; rare outside academic writing on epistemology and phenomenology.
- Husserl distinguished noesis, the act of thinking, from its object, the noema.
- The lecture defined noesis as reasoning that produces genuine understanding.
- For the ancient Greeks, noesis stood above mere opinion as true intellectual insight.
- Her thesis traced how noesis was treated differently by Plato and Husserl.
- The philosopher argued that noesis always points toward some object of thought.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NOESIS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of NOESIS
The 6 tiles of NOESIS in a different order — 7 found.
Words starting with NOESIS
1 longer words begin with NOESIS.
Shorter words from the letters in NOESIS
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Common questions about NOESIS
- Is NOESIS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NOESIS, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NOESIS worth?
- NOESIS is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NOESIS mean?
- The mental act of understanding or grasping something through reasoning and perception.
- What letters can be added to NOESIS?
- NOESIS takes 1 hook: 1 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of NOESIS:
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