SHENT is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SHENT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SHENT?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SHENT is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHENT
Front hooks — 1
yshentBack hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How SHENT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SHENT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What stands out about SHENT
- The same 5 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 SHENT mean in Scrabble?
other
archaic
The archaic past tense and past participle of shend, meaning put to shame, scolded, or ruined.
A person who was shent had been publicly disgraced or reprimanded, often by someone with authority over them, and the word carried a sharper sting than simple criticism. Writers of Middle and early modern English used shent where a modern author would write shamed or scolded. The base verb shend disappeared from ordinary speech long ago, and shent now survives only in quotations from old poetry and drama.
How SHENT is used
Archaic verb form, found almost exclusively in older literary quotation rather than living speech.
- The knight felt shent before the assembled court.
- He was shent for his cowardice in front of the whole company.
- The old poem says the traitor was shent and driven out.
- She read how the servant had been shent by his master.
- In the play, the fool is shent for mocking the king.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHENT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SHENT
The 5 tiles of SHENT in a different order — 2 found.
Words ending in SHENT
2 words end in SHENT. Useful as a back hook: play SHENT onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in SHENT
Common questions about SHENT
- Is SHENT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SHENT, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SHENT worth?
- SHENT is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHENT mean?
- The archaic past tense and past participle of shend, meaning put to shame, scolded, or ruined.
- What letters can be added to SHENT?
- SHENT takes 1 hook: 1 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SHENT:
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