STENCILLING is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. STENCILLING is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 20 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept STENCILLING?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful STENCILLING is to know. It scores 14 from 11 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for STENCILLING
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
stencillingsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How STENCILLING scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in STENCILLING, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so STENCILLING has to be built on the board across turns.
What does STENCILLING mean in Scrabble?
noun
The craft of decorating a surface by brushing or spraying paint through a cut-out sheet so that only the open shapes are coloured.
Stencilling lets a painter repeat the same motif many times with crisp edges and no freehand drawing. It is popular for wall borders, lettering on crates and homemade fabric prints.
How STENCILLING is used
Stencilling is used in decorating, signwriting and craft work, usually with paint or ink.
- Her stencilling along the hallway wall made a neat border of leaves.
- The crates were marked by stencilling, so every label looked identical.
- We tried stencilling on cotton bags using a sponge and fabric paint.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of STENCILLING and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with STENCILLING
1 longer words begin with STENCILLING.
Shorter words from the letters in STENCILLING
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Common questions about STENCILLING
- Is STENCILLING valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts STENCILLING, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is STENCILLING worth?
- STENCILLING is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does STENCILLING mean?
- The craft of decorating a surface by brushing or spraying paint through a cut-out sheet so that only the open shapes are coloured.
- What letters can be added to STENCILLING?
- STENCILLING takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of STENCILLING:
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