SANDHI is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. SANDHI is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SANDHI?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SANDHI is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SANDHI
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
sandhisChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SANDHI scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SANDHI, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 76,649.
What does SANDHI mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A change in the sound of a word or word-part caused by the sounds next to it in connected speech.
The term comes from Sanskrit, where the ancient grammarians described in detail how sounds merge at the edges of words, and linguists adopted it for such changes in any language. English shows sandhi when a becomes an before a vowel, or when the t in "don't you" turns into a ch sound in quick speech. Some languages even write these changes down, while others leave them out of spelling. Studying sandhi helps explain why spoken sentences sound different from their written words.
How SANDHI is used
A technical term of linguistics, rarely found outside grammar and phonetics books.
- The change from a to an before a vowel is a simple case of sandhi.
- Sanskrit texts are hard to read until the rules of sandhi are learned.
- The lecture compared sandhi in French and in Hindi.
- Fast speech produces sandhi that careful speech does not.
- He marked every point of sandhi in the transcript.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SANDHI and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SANDHI
The 6 tiles of SANDHI in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SANDHI
3 longer words begin with SANDHI.
Shorter words from the letters in SANDHI
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Common questions about SANDHI
- Is SANDHI valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SANDHI, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SANDHI worth?
- SANDHI is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SANDHI mean?
- A change in the sound of a word or word-part caused by the sounds next to it in connected speech.
- What letters can be added to SANDHI?
- SANDHI takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SANDHI:
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