RESCISSORY is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. RESCISSORY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RESCISSORY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RESCISSORY is to know. It scores 15 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RESCISSORY
No single letter turns RESCISSORY into another word.
How RESCISSORY scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in RESCISSORY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 2 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 3 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so RESCISSORY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does RESCISSORY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
legalrare
Having the power to cancel, annul, or undo a contract, deed, or law.
Rescissory belongs to the courtroom, where a rescissory remedy lets a judge wipe out an agreement as if it never existed. It is paired with the noun rescission and is seldom heard outside legal circles. In Scottish history it also labels a famous act that repealed earlier laws.
How RESCISSORY is used
Rescissory appears in legal texts, as in a rescissory action or rescissory damages.
- The buyer sought a rescissory order to cancel the sale.
- A rescissory action can unwind a contract signed under pressure.
- Historians still cite the rescissory act of the seventeenth century.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RESCISSORY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in RESCISSORY
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Common questions about RESCISSORY
- Is RESCISSORY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RESCISSORY, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RESCISSORY worth?
- RESCISSORY is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RESCISSORY mean?
- Having the power to cancel, annul, or undo a contract, deed, or law.
- What letters can be added to RESCISSORY?
- No single letter can be added to RESCISSORY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of RESCISSORY:
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