PREVUE is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. PREVUE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PREVUE?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PREVUE is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PREVUE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PREVUE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PREVUE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 188,140.
What does PREVUE mean in Scrabble?
noun
North American
A short film sequence shown ahead of a feature to advertise a movie that is coming soon.
Prevue is a respelling of preview that American cinema adopted for its trailers, and the odd spelling was meant to look distinctive on a theatre marquee. In that sense a prevue is a handful of scenes stitched together to tempt an audience back. The same spelling also turns up as a verb meaning to preview something.
How PREVUE is used
Mostly American and mostly historical in the cinema sense; trailer is the everyday word now.
- The prevue ran before the main feature and showed three explosions.
- A prevue for the new western played to a half-empty hall.
- She remembered the old prevue more fondly than the film itself.
- Every prevue promised a picture bigger than the last one.
- The studio cut a second prevue for the television audience.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PREVUE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PREVUE
2 longer words begin with PREVUE.
Shorter words from the letters in PREVUE
Common questions about PREVUE
- Is PREVUE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PREVUE, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PREVUE worth?
- PREVUE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PREVUE mean?
- A short film sequence shown ahead of a feature to advertise a movie that is coming soon.
- What letters can be added to PREVUE?
- PREVUE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PREVUE:
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