SPEISS is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SPEISS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SPEISS?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SPEISS is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPEISS
No single letter turns SPEISS into another word.
How SPEISS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SPEISS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 3 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,380 thousand.
What stands out about SPEISS
- SPEISS begins and ends with the same letter.
- The same 6 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 SPEISS mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A hard, brittle mixture of metal arsenides that collects as a heavy layer during the smelting of certain ores.
Smelters met speiss when an ore contained arsenic or antimony alongside nickel, cobalt or iron. Because it is denser than slag and lighter than the pure metal, it forms its own layer in the furnace and had to be tapped off separately. The word comes from German, where it once meant food or a mixed dish, and the variant speise is recorded for the same material.
How SPEISS is used
Technical and historical; found in metallurgy texts rather than in everyday speech.
- The foreman tapped the speiss from the furnace before the slag cooled.
- Cobalt ore from the mine produced a thick speiss that had to be roasted again.
- A layer of speiss lay between the slag and the matte.
- Old smelting manuals describe speiss as a nuisance and as a source of nickel.
- The pale speiss was brittle enough to crush with a hammer.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPEISS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SPEISS
The 6 tiles of SPEISS in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with SPEISS
1 longer words begin with SPEISS.
Shorter words from the letters in SPEISS
Common questions about SPEISS
- Is SPEISS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SPEISS, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SPEISS worth?
- SPEISS is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPEISS mean?
- A hard, brittle mixture of metal arsenides that collects as a heavy layer during the smelting of certain ores.
- What letters can be added to SPEISS?
- No single letter can be added to SPEISS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SPEISS:
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