SIGHLESS is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. SIGHLESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SIGHLESS?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SIGHLESS is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SIGHLESS
No single letter turns SIGHLESS into another word.
How SIGHLESS scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in SIGHLESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 3 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SIGHLESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about SIGHLESS
- SIGHLESS begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SIGHLESS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Giving out no sighs; calm and silent in a way that shows no sorrow or longing.
A rare poetic coinage built from sigh and the ending -less. Writers reach for sighless when they want to describe someone who bears a loss without any audible sign of grief.
How SIGHLESS is used
Found almost only in verse and old-fashioned prose, usually describing a person, a night or a silence.
- The sighless watcher stood by the bed until dawn.
- Her sighless endurance puzzled the villagers.
- He faced the long winter in sighless calm.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SIGHLESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SIGHLESS
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Common questions about SIGHLESS
- Is SIGHLESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SIGHLESS, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SIGHLESS worth?
- SIGHLESS is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SIGHLESS mean?
- Giving out no sighs; calm and silent in a way that shows no sorrow or longing.
- What letters can be added to SIGHLESS?
- No single letter can be added to SIGHLESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of SIGHLESS:
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