NOUMENON is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. NOUMENON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NOUMENON?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NOUMENON is to know. It scores 10 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NOUMENON
No single letter turns NOUMENON into another word.
How NOUMENON scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in NOUMENON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 3 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so NOUMENON has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about NOUMENON
- NOUMENON begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does NOUMENON mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
In Kantian philosophy, a thing as it is in itself, as distinct from how it is known through the senses.
The noumenon is the unseen partner of the phenomenon, the thing we perceive. Philosophers debate whether the noumenon can be reasoned about at all, since it by nature escapes experience.
How NOUMENON is used
The noun noumenon belongs to philosophical discussion, with the plural noumena.
- The seminar spent an hour on the idea of the noumenon.
- For Kant, the noumenon lies beyond what we can observe.
- She argued that a noumenon cannot be tested by experiment.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NOUMENON and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in NOUMENON
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Common questions about NOUMENON
- Is NOUMENON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NOUMENON, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NOUMENON worth?
- NOUMENON is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NOUMENON mean?
- In Kantian philosophy, a thing as it is in itself, as distinct from how it is known through the senses.
- What letters can be added to NOUMENON?
- No single letter can be added to NOUMENON to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of NOUMENON:
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