SESS is valid in Collins, not in North America — 4 points
It depends on the list you play by. SESS is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 4 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept SESS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SESS is to know. It scores 4 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SESS
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
sessaChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How SESS scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in SESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 3 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 81,692.
What does SESS mean in Scrabble?
noun
IrishScotshistorical
A tax or local levy, especially one raised for a specific public purpose.
Sess is an old spelling of cess, a word once used in Scotland, Ireland and India for a tax collected locally, often to pay for soldiers or public works. Officials would sess a district, meaning they assessed how much each household owed. The spelling with an s survives mainly in older legal and historical records.
How SESS is used
Historical and regional (Scotland, Ireland, India); an old spelling of cess.
- The parish was ordered to pay a sess toward the militia.
- Local records list the sess collected from each farm that year.
- Villagers grumbled about the new sess laid on their land.
- The old ledger shows every household share of the sess.
- Historians describe how the sess funded the county soldiers.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SESS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SESS
13 longer words begin with SESS.
Words ending in SESS
8 words end in SESS. Useful as a back hook: play SESS onto a word already on the board.
Words with SESS inside
Showing 24 of 99 words that contain SESS somewhere in the middle. Words that start with SESS are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SESS
Common questions about SESS
- Is SESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SESS, where it scores 4 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SESS worth?
- SESS is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SESS mean?
- A tax or local levy, especially one raised for a specific public purpose.
- What letters can be added to SESS?
- SESS takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of SESS:
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