RANCE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. RANCE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RANCE?
| 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: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RANCE is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RANCE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RANCE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in RANCE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,682.
What stands out about RANCE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 4 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 RANCE mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scotsregional
A bar, post or prop used to support or shore up something, such as a beam holding up the roof of a mine.
A rance takes the strain that would otherwise fall on a weaker part of a structure, and the word was used this way for a door bolted shut with a bar across it as much as for a wooden pillar propping up the roof of a coal mine. The same word can work as a verb, so miners spoke of ranceing a passage, meaning to brace or prop it. A separate, unrelated sense survives in the trade name rance marble, a reddish, variegated stone quarried in Belgium and used for decorative building work, which shares only its spelling with the prop.
How RANCE is used
A Scots and northern English dialect term, met mainly in older mining or building contexts rather than in modern everyday speech.
- The miners wedged a wooden rance under the sagging roof timber.
- A rough iron rance held the old barn door shut against the wind.
- He cut a fresh rance to prop the leaning fence post upright.
- Without a proper rance, the tunnel roof would have come down years earlier.
- The old cottage still had its original door rance bolted across the frame.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RANCE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of RANCE
The 5 tiles of RANCE in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with RANCE
6 longer words begin with RANCE.
Words ending in RANCE
Showing 24 of 73 words that end in RANCE. Useful as a back hook: play RANCE onto a word already on the board.
Words with RANCE inside
Showing 24 of 96 words that contain RANCE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with RANCE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in RANCE
Common questions about RANCE
- Is RANCE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RANCE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RANCE worth?
- RANCE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RANCE mean?
- A bar, post or prop used to support or shore up something, such as a beam holding up the roof of a mine.
- What letters can be added to RANCE?
- RANCE takes 5 hooks: 2 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of RANCE:
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