SEIGNIORAGE is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. SEIGNIORAGE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SEIGNIORAGE?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SEIGNIORAGE is to know. It scores 13 from 11 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SEIGNIORAGE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
seignioragesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SEIGNIORAGE scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in SEIGNIORAGE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| g | 2 | 3 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SEIGNIORAGE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does SEIGNIORAGE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The profit a government makes by issuing money, being the gap between its face value and the cost of producing it.
Seigniorage goes back to a feudal lord, the seigneur, who claimed a share of the coinage struck in his territory. Today economists use seigniorage to describe the revenue from printing banknotes and minting coins.
How SEIGNIORAGE is used
Seigniorage is a term of economics and monetary history.
- A coin costing ten cents to make but worth a dollar yields large seigniorage.
- Central banks earn seigniorage when they issue cash.
- Medieval kings collected seigniorage on every coin minted.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SEIGNIORAGE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SEIGNIORAGE
1 longer words begin with SEIGNIORAGE.
Shorter words from the letters in SEIGNIORAGE
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Common questions about SEIGNIORAGE
- Is SEIGNIORAGE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SEIGNIORAGE, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SEIGNIORAGE worth?
- SEIGNIORAGE is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SEIGNIORAGE mean?
- The profit a government makes by issuing money, being the gap between its face value and the cost of producing it.
- What letters can be added to SEIGNIORAGE?
- SEIGNIORAGE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of SEIGNIORAGE:
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