SANIES is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. SANIES is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SANIES?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SANIES is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SANIES
No single letter turns SANIES into another word.
How SANIES scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SANIES, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 34,066.
What stands out about SANIES
- SANIES begins and ends with the same letter.
- The same 6 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SANIES mean in Scrabble?
noun
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A thin, foul-smelling discharge of blood, pus, and serum from a wound or ulcer.
Sanies comes directly from the Latin word for the same thin, watery discharge, and older medical writing used it to distinguish this fluid from thicker pus. Where pus is largely dead white blood cells, sanies mixes serum, blood, and pus together into a paler, more watery discharge typically seen with an infected or poorly healing wound. Nineteenth-century surgical texts describe sanies at length, since judging its colour and smell was one of the few ways doctors could assess a wound before modern laboratory testing existed. The word survives today mainly in historical medical writing and in word lists rather than in clinical practice.
How SANIES is used
Rare outside historical medical texts; modern clinical writing generally prefers discharge or exudate.
- The old surgical notes described sanies draining from the wound.
- A thin trickle of sanies stained the bandage overnight.
- Physicians once judged infection partly by the smell of sanies.
- The ulcer continued to weep sanies despite daily dressing.
- Historical texts use sanies where modern notes would say discharge.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SANIES and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SANIES
The 6 tiles of SANIES in a different order — 3 found.
Shorter words from the letters in SANIES
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Common questions about SANIES
- Is SANIES valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SANIES, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SANIES worth?
- SANIES is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SANIES mean?
- A thin, foul-smelling discharge of blood, pus, and serum from a wound or ulcer.
- What letters can be added to SANIES?
- No single letter can be added to SANIES to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SANIES:
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