SEXTAN is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. SEXTAN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SEXTAN?
| 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 SEXTAN is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SEXTAN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SEXTAN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SEXTAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 76,649.
What does SEXTAN mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medicalarchaic
Of a fever, returning in fits on every sixth day.
Old medical writers named fevers by how often their attacks returned, so a sextan fever was one whose fits came back on a regular cycle of about six days. The same word can serve as a noun for such a fever. It belongs to the same family as tertian and quartan, which describe shorter cycles, and it is now met almost only in older medical books.
How SEXTAN is used
Archaic medical term, found in historical texts about malaria and similar fevers.
- The old physician noted a sextan fever in the patient.
- A sextan pattern was rare compared with the quartan kind.
- The chart showed a sextan rhythm in the attacks.
- He described the illness as sextan because of its slow return.
- In the book a sextan ague troubles the sailors.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SEXTAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SEXTAN
5 longer words begin with SEXTAN.
Shorter words from the letters in SEXTAN
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Common questions about SEXTAN
- Is SEXTAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SEXTAN, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SEXTAN worth?
- SEXTAN is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SEXTAN mean?
- Of a fever, returning in fits on every sixth day.
- What letters can be added to SEXTAN?
- SEXTAN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SEXTAN:
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