RHEUMATISE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 15 points
It depends on the list you play by. RHEUMATISE is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 15 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept RHEUMATISE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RHEUMATISE is to know. It scores 15 from 10 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RHEUMATISE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
rheumatisesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RHEUMATISE scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in RHEUMATISE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so RHEUMATISE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does RHEUMATISE mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialectarchaic
Rheumatism; a dialectal and old-fashioned name for the disease that causes joint pain and stiffness.
Rheumatise is simply an older, dialect way of pronouncing and spelling rheumatism, the condition that leaves joints stiff, swollen, and painful. It appears in older regional speech and literature, often spoken by characters meant to sound rural or old-fashioned.
How RHEUMATISE is used
Found in dialect speech and older literature rather than modern medical writing.
- Cold, damp weather always brought back his rheumatise.
- She rubbed her knee and complained of the rheumatise.
- The old fisherman blamed his aching hands on rheumatise.
- Grandmother kept a special ointment for her rheumatise.
- Winter was hardest on anyone suffering from rheumatise.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RHEUMATISE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with RHEUMATISE
1 longer words begin with RHEUMATISE.
Shorter words from the letters in RHEUMATISE
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Common questions about RHEUMATISE
- Is RHEUMATISE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and RHEUMATISE is not in it.
- How many points is RHEUMATISE worth?
- RHEUMATISE is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RHEUMATISE mean?
- Rheumatism; a dialectal and old-fashioned name for the disease that causes joint pain and stiffness.
- What letters can be added to RHEUMATISE?
- RHEUMATISE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of RHEUMATISE:
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