PEISE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. PEISE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PEISE?
| 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 PEISE is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 7.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PEISE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PEISE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PEISE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 15,843.
What does PEISE mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicliterary
To weigh something, or to balance it and give it a felt sense of weight.
Peise is an old verb related to the same root that gave English the words poise and pound, all going back to Latin words for weighing. Writers used peise both literally, for weighing an object in the hand, and figuratively, for weighing or balancing an idea, a risk or a piece of evidence in the mind. The word appears in Shakespeare and other early writers but had already become rare and literary by the nineteenth century. Today it survives mainly in quotations from older English rather than in everyday writing.
How PEISE is used
Archaic and literary; met mainly in quotations from early modern English.
- The merchant would peise each coin before accepting it.
- He tried to peise the risks before making his decision.
- The old translation uses peise where a modern one would say weigh.
- She seemed to peise every word before speaking it aloud.
- The scholar noted how rarely modern writers still peise their arguments this way.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PEISE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PEISE
2 longer words begin with PEISE.
Words ending in PEISE
2 words end in PEISE. Useful as a back hook: play PEISE onto a word already on the board.
Words with PEISE inside
3 words contain PEISE in the middle. Words that start with PEISE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PEISE
Common questions about PEISE
- Is PEISE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PEISE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PEISE worth?
- PEISE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PEISE mean?
- To weigh something, or to balance it and give it a felt sense of weight.
- What letters can be added to PEISE?
- PEISE takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PEISE:
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