REMITTENT is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. REMITTENT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept REMITTENT?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful REMITTENT is to know. It scores 11 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for REMITTENT
No single letter turns REMITTENT into another word.
How REMITTENT scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in REMITTENT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 3 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so REMITTENT has to be built on the board across turns.
What does REMITTENT mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medical
Of an illness, rising and falling in severity without ever fully going away.
Physicians describe a remittent fever as one that dips during the day but never reaches normal. That sets it apart from an intermittent fever, where the temperature does return to normal between attacks.
How REMITTENT is used
A medical term, used mostly for fevers that ease and flare repeatedly.
- The doctor noted a remittent fever that eased each morning.
- Her remittent symptoms made the illness hard to diagnose.
- Remittent attacks of pain kept him awake most nights.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of REMITTENT and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with REMITTENT
1 longer words begin with REMITTENT.
Shorter words from the letters in REMITTENT
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Common questions about REMITTENT
- Is REMITTENT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts REMITTENT, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is REMITTENT worth?
- REMITTENT is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does REMITTENT mean?
- Of an illness, rising and falling in severity without ever fully going away.
- What letters can be added to REMITTENT?
- No single letter can be added to REMITTENT to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of REMITTENT:
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