SPENSE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SPENSE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SPENSE?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SPENSE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPENSE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
spensesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SPENSE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SPENSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 250,853.
What does SPENSE mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
A small room or cupboard where food and drink are kept; a pantry or larder.
The word is an old form of spence, which came into English from French and is related to the idea of dispensing provisions. A household of earlier centuries would keep bread, cheese and ale in the spense, under the eye of the person who handed them out. It lingers in dialect and in historical fiction, and the sense of a parlour is also recorded.
How SPENSE is used
Archaic and dialectal; met in older texts and in Scots writing.
- The maid fetched cold mutton from the spense.
- Keys to the spense hung at the steward's belt.
- Bread and cheese were stored in the cool spense behind the kitchen.
- He crept into the spense at midnight looking for a pie.
- The old manor still has its stone-floored spense beside the hall.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPENSE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SPENSE
1 longer words begin with SPENSE.
Shorter words from the letters in SPENSE
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Common questions about SPENSE
- Is SPENSE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SPENSE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SPENSE worth?
- SPENSE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPENSE mean?
- A small room or cupboard where food and drink are kept; a pantry or larder.
- What letters can be added to SPENSE?
- SPENSE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SPENSE:
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