SPENCE is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. SPENCE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SPENCE?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SPENCE is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPENCE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SPENCE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SPENCE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 188,140.
What does SPENCE mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicScots
A small room or cupboard in a house where food and drink are stored.
A spence was the old name for a pantry or buttery, the cool place near the kitchen where bread, meat and ale were kept. In Scotland and northern England the word also came to mean the inner or best room of a country cottage. It comes from an older word meaning to dispense, since this was the room from which supplies were handed out. Modern speakers say pantry instead.
How SPENCE is used
Archaic and dialectal; met in old ballads, novels and Scots writing.
- The cook fetched a loaf from the spence.
- Cheese and cured ham hung in the cool spence.
- She locked the spence each night against thieves.
- The old farmhouse still had a spence off the kitchen.
- He guided the guest into the spence to drink by the fire.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPENCE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SPENCE
The 6 tiles of SPENCE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SPENCE
3 longer words begin with SPENCE.
Shorter words from the letters in SPENCE
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Common questions about SPENCE
- Is SPENCE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SPENCE, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SPENCE worth?
- SPENCE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPENCE mean?
- A small room or cupboard in a house where food and drink are stored.
- What letters can be added to SPENCE?
- SPENCE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SPENCE:
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