POORNESS is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. POORNESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept POORNESS?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful POORNESS is to know. It scores 10 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POORNESS
No single letter turns POORNESS into another word.
How POORNESS scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in POORNESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so POORNESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about POORNESS
- The same 8 tiles also spell 2 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 POORNESS mean in Scrabble?
noun
The condition of lacking money, quality or some desirable ingredient.
Poorness can refer to want of wealth, but it is more often applied to inadequacy, as in the poorness of soil or of a recording. Writers choose poorness when they want to stress the fact of falling short rather than the people involved.
How POORNESS is used
Poorness names a quality or state and is more formal than simply saying something is poor.
- The poorness of the harvest worried the farmers.
- Critics noted the poorness of the sound quality.
- He was ashamed by the poorness of his reply.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POORNESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of POORNESS
The 8 tiles of POORNESS in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with POORNESS
1 longer words begin with POORNESS.
Shorter words from the letters in POORNESS
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Common questions about POORNESS
- Is POORNESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POORNESS, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POORNESS worth?
- POORNESS is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POORNESS mean?
- The condition of lacking money, quality or some desirable ingredient.
- What letters can be added to POORNESS?
- No single letter can be added to POORNESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of POORNESS:
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