PUISNE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PUISNE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PUISNE?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PUISNE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PUISNE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
puisnesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PUISNE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PUISNE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 57,487.
What does PUISNE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
legal
Of lower or subordinate rank, especially describing a judge who sits below the chief justice of a court.
Courts in Britain and many former British territories still use puisne judge as the formal title for an ordinary judge of a superior court, distinguishing that rank from the chief justice or president of the court. The word comes from an old French phrase meaning born after, reflecting an original sense of younger or later in standing, which shifted over time into a mark of lower rank rather than lower age. Outside law, the word almost never appears, and even within law it survives mainly as a fixed title rather than a freely used descriptive adjective.
How PUISNE is used
A formal legal term, used chiefly in the title puisne judge within courts based on English legal tradition.
- The court appointed three new puisne judges this year.
- A puisne judge handles most trials at that level of court.
- He served for decades as a puisne judge before retiring.
- The chief justice sat above the puisne judges in rank.
- Her promotion from puisne judge to chief justice took years.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PUISNE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PUISNE
The 6 tiles of PUISNE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with PUISNE
1 longer words begin with PUISNE.
Shorter words from the letters in PUISNE
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Common questions about PUISNE
- Is PUISNE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PUISNE, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PUISNE worth?
- PUISNE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PUISNE mean?
- Of lower or subordinate rank, especially describing a judge who sits below the chief justice of a court.
- What letters can be added to PUISNE?
- PUISNE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PUISNE:
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