SAFENESS is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. SAFENESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SAFENESS?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SAFENESS is to know. It scores 11 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SAFENESS
No single letter turns SAFENESS into another word.
How SAFENESS scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in SAFENESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 3 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SAFENESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about SAFENESS
- SAFENESS begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SAFENESS mean in Scrabble?
noun
The condition of being free from danger, harm or risk.
Safeness is a rarer cousin of "safety". Writers pick it when they want to talk about how safe a particular thing is, as a measurable quality, rather than about the field of protection in general.
How SAFENESS is used
Safeness is found in careful or technical prose where "safety" would sound too broad.
- Engineers tested the safeness of the new bridge.
- Nobody doubted the safeness of the route.
- The leaflet stresses the safeness of the vaccine.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SAFENESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SAFENESS
1 longer words begin with SAFENESS.
Shorter words from the letters in SAFENESS
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Common questions about SAFENESS
- Is SAFENESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SAFENESS, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SAFENESS worth?
- SAFENESS is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SAFENESS mean?
- The condition of being free from danger, harm or risk.
- What letters can be added to SAFENESS?
- No single letter can be added to SAFENESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of SAFENESS:
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