SCANSION is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. SCANSION is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SCANSION?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SCANSION is to know. It scores 10 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCANSION
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
scansionsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SCANSION scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in SCANSION, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SCANSION has to be built on the board across turns.
What does SCANSION mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The analysis of a line of verse to mark its metre, stresses and feet.
Scansion is what students do when they mark each syllable of a poem as stressed or unstressed. Good scansion reveals the rhythm that a poet chose and where the pattern is deliberately broken.
How SCANSION is used
A term from poetry study.
- The teacher asked us to practise scansion on a sonnet.
- Scansion shows that the second line has an extra syllable.
- His scansion of the passage was careful and exact.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCANSION and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SCANSION
1 longer words begin with SCANSION.
Shorter words from the letters in SCANSION
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Common questions about SCANSION
- Is SCANSION valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SCANSION, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SCANSION worth?
- SCANSION is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCANSION mean?
- The analysis of a line of verse to mark its metre, stresses and feet.
- What letters can be added to SCANSION?
- SCANSION takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of SCANSION:
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