SENNIT is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. SENNIT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SENNIT?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SENNIT is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SENNIT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
sennitsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SENNIT scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SENNIT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 30,660.
What stands out about SENNIT
- The same 6 tiles also spell 2 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 SENNIT mean in Scrabble?
noun
nautical
A flat, round, or square braided cord made by plaiting several strands of rope yarn, straw, or similar fibre together.
Sennit was made and used constantly aboard sailing ships, where crews plaited spare rope yarns into sennit for lashings, mats, and trims whenever there was idle time on a long voyage. The same braiding technique produced sennit from straw or palm leaf for hats on land, so the word covers both a ship's craft and a hat-maker's material. An older spelling, sinnet, still turns up in some nautical glossaries as an equivalent form. Sailors' narratives from the age of sail mention sennit often enough that the word survives mainly through that literature today.
How SENNIT is used
Chiefly nautical and historical; found in sailing narratives and craft manuals rather than in everyday speech.
- The sailors plaited sennit from old rope during the calm.
- A length of sennit served to lash the bundle securely.
- Straw sennit was woven into a wide-brimmed hat.
- The old sea narrative describes braiding sennit by lamplight.
- Sennit and its variant spelling sinnet name the same braided cord.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SENNIT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SENNIT
The 6 tiles of SENNIT in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with SENNIT
1 longer words begin with SENNIT.
Shorter words from the letters in SENNIT
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Common questions about SENNIT
- Is SENNIT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SENNIT, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SENNIT worth?
- SENNIT is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SENNIT mean?
- A flat, round, or square braided cord made by plaiting several strands of rope yarn, straw, or similar fibre together.
- What letters can be added to SENNIT?
- SENNIT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SENNIT:
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