SUBSENTENCE is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. SUBSENTENCE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 20 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SUBSENTENCE?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SUBSENTENCE is to know. It scores 15 from 11 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SUBSENTENCE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
subsentencesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SUBSENTENCE scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in SUBSENTENCE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 3 | 12 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SUBSENTENCE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does SUBSENTENCE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A part of a sentence, or a clause that sits inside a longer sentence.
Linguists talk about a subsentence when examining how a long sentence is built from smaller pieces. Seeing each subsentence separately makes the grammar easier to map.
How SUBSENTENCE is used
Rare technical term in grammar and computational linguistics.
- The parser splits every sentence into a subsentence and a remainder.
- Each subsentence carries its own verb.
- She underlined the subsentence that held the main claim.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SUBSENTENCE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SUBSENTENCE
1 longer words begin with SUBSENTENCE.
Shorter words from the letters in SUBSENTENCE
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Common questions about SUBSENTENCE
- Is SUBSENTENCE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SUBSENTENCE, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SUBSENTENCE worth?
- SUBSENTENCE is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SUBSENTENCE mean?
- A part of a sentence, or a clause that sits inside a longer sentence.
- What letters can be added to SUBSENTENCE?
- SUBSENTENCE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of SUBSENTENCE:
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