RAPPEE is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. RAPPEE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RAPPEE?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RAPPEE is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RAPPEE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RAPPEE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in RAPPEE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| p | 2 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 334,470.
What does RAPPEE mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A coarse, strong, damp snuff made from dark tobacco, popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The name comes from the French word for grated, because the tobacco leaf was ground into a rough powder. Rappee was kept in a snuffbox and sniffed in a pinch, and it appears often in novels set in Georgian and Victorian times. It was stronger and moister than the finer, drier kinds of snuff.
How RAPPEE is used
Historical; met in period fiction and writing on tobacco history.
- He took a pinch of rappee from his silver box.
- The tobacconist sold rappee in small paper packets.
- A cloud of rappee made the old judge sneeze.
- Her great-uncle was loyal to rappee and scorned the finer snuffs.
- The novel describes a gentleman who never travelled without his rappee.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RAPPEE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with RAPPEE
1 longer words begin with RAPPEE.
Shorter words from the letters in RAPPEE
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Common questions about RAPPEE
- Is RAPPEE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RAPPEE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RAPPEE worth?
- RAPPEE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RAPPEE mean?
- A coarse, strong, damp snuff made from dark tobacco, popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- What letters can be added to RAPPEE?
- RAPPEE takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of RAPPEE:
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