PENULT is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PENULT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PENULT?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PENULT is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PENULT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
penultsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PENULT scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PENULT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 86,231.
What does PENULT mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The next-to-last syllable in a word.
Grammarians and students of Latin and Greek verse use penult to name the syllable just before the final one, a position that decides stress placement in many classical and modern languages. In the English word banana, for example, the penult is the syllable na, the one that carries the main stress. The term shortens penultimate, and the fuller word turns up more often in everyday speech, while penult itself stays mostly within linguistics, prosody and classroom grammar. A related but rarer term, antepenult, names the syllable two places before the end.
How PENULT is used
Technical; used chiefly in linguistics, phonetics and the study of classical verse rather than in casual speech.
- Stress in Latin regularly falls on the penult if it is long.
- The teacher marked the penult of each word before scanning the line.
- In banana, the penult carries the heaviest stress.
- Editors argued over whether the penult should be short or long in that verse.
- Her thesis compared penult stress patterns across three dialects.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PENULT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PENULT
6 longer words begin with PENULT.
Shorter words from the letters in PENULT
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Common questions about PENULT
- Is PENULT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PENULT, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PENULT worth?
- PENULT is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PENULT mean?
- The next-to-last syllable in a word.
- What letters can be added to PENULT?
- PENULT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PENULT:
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