PRESS is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. PRESS 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 PRESS?
| 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 PRESS is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PRESS
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
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How PRESS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PRESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does PRESS mean in Scrabble?
verb
To apply steady force or weight against something, typically to push, flatten, shape or operate it.
Pressing something applies continuous force rather than a single sharp blow, whether that involves pushing a button to start a machine, ironing clothes smooth with a hot iron, or squeezing grapes to extract their juice. The same verb stretches to cover people as well as objects, so a lawyer can press a case, a crowd can press forward, and a persistent request can press someone to reconsider a decision. As a noun, the press most often names the newspapers, magazines and journalists who report the news collectively, a sense that grew directly out of the printing press once used to produce them. A separate noun sense survives in furniture, where an old-fashioned press is simply a tall cupboard, usually for storing clothes or linen.
How PRESS is used
Extremely common across everyday speech, journalism, cooking, sport and manufacturing; context usually makes the exact sense clear.
- She had to press hard to squeeze the last of the juice from the orange.
- He pressed the button and waited for the elevator to arrive.
- The tailor pressed the suit until every crease had disappeared.
- The local press covered the trial closely for several weeks.
- Linen was folded neatly and stored inside the old wooden press.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PRESS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PRESS
Showing 24 of 58 words that begin with PRESS.
Words ending in PRESS
Showing 24 of 31 words that end in PRESS. Useful as a back hook: play PRESS onto a word already on the board.
Words with PRESS inside
Showing 24 of 291 words that contain PRESS somewhere in the middle. Words that start with PRESS are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PRESS
Common questions about PRESS
- Is PRESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PRESS, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PRESS worth?
- PRESS is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PRESS mean?
- To apply steady force or weight against something, typically to push, flatten, shape or operate it.
- What letters can be added to PRESS?
- PRESS takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PRESS:
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