POTENCY is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. POTENCY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept POTENCY?
| 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: 51 / 100
Our own measure of how useful POTENCY is to know. It scores 14 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POTENCY
No single letter turns POTENCY into another word.
How POTENCY scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in POTENCY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 578,977.
What does POTENCY mean in Scrabble?
noun
The strength or power of something, especially its ability to produce an effect.
Pharmacists talk about the potency of a drug as the dose needed to get a given result, while writers may praise the potency of an image or an argument. The word can also mean sexual vigour in a man, a sense more common in older usage.
How POTENCY is used
The noun potency often follows words like drug, poison, spell or argument.
- The potency of the medicine fades if it is stored in the heat.
- Critics admired the potency of the final scene.
- Over the years the old wine lost much of its potency.
- Lab tests measured the potency of each sample.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POTENCY and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in POTENCY
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Common questions about POTENCY
- Is POTENCY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POTENCY, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POTENCY worth?
- POTENCY is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POTENCY mean?
- The strength or power of something, especially its ability to produce an effect.
- What letters can be added to POTENCY?
- No single letter can be added to POTENCY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of POTENCY:
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