SENNIGHT is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. SENNIGHT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SENNIGHT?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SENNIGHT is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SENNIGHT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
sennightsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SENNIGHT scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in SENNIGHT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SENNIGHT has to be built on the board across turns.
What does SENNIGHT mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
A period of seven nights and days; a week.
Sennight is a contraction of seven night and survives in old texts and deliberately antique speech. It is usually met in phrases such as a sennight hence or a sennight ago.
How SENNIGHT is used
Archaic; appears in older literature and in imitations of it.
- I shall return within a sennight.
- The letter was sent a sennight ago.
- Tuesday sennight means a week from Tuesday.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SENNIGHT and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SENNIGHT
1 longer words begin with SENNIGHT.
Shorter words from the letters in SENNIGHT
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Common questions about SENNIGHT
- Is SENNIGHT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SENNIGHT, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SENNIGHT worth?
- SENNIGHT is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SENNIGHT mean?
- A period of seven nights and days; a week.
- What letters can be added to SENNIGHT?
- SENNIGHT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of SENNIGHT:
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