SONANT is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. SONANT 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 SONANT?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SONANT is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SONANT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
sonantsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SONANT scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SONANT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 45,990.
What does SONANT mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Describing a speech sound produced with vibration of the vocal cords; voiced.
Phoneticians use sonant to classify consonants such as b, d, g, v and z, which are made with the vocal cords vibrating, in contrast with voiceless sounds like p, t and s. The term also appears as a noun for the voiced sound itself. It belongs to older phonetic terminology, largely replaced today by voiced in everyday linguistic writing.
How SONANT is used
Technical term of phonetics, found mainly in older or specialist descriptions of speech sounds.
- The letter b represents a sonant consonant, unlike its voiceless counterpart p.
- Early grammarians classified every consonant as either sonant or surd.
- A sonant sound sets the vocal cords vibrating as air passes through the throat.
- The textbook contrasts sonant stops with their unvoiced pairs in a single table.
- Linguists now more often say voiced where older books would write sonant.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SONANT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SONANT
The 6 tiles of SONANT in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SONANT
3 longer words begin with SONANT.
Shorter words from the letters in SONANT
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Common questions about SONANT
- Is SONANT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SONANT, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SONANT worth?
- SONANT is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SONANT mean?
- Describing a speech sound produced with vibration of the vocal cords; voiced.
- What letters can be added to SONANT?
- SONANT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SONANT:
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