SUBURBANISE is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. SUBURBANISE 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 SUBURBANISE?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SUBURBANISE is to know. It scores 15 from 11 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SUBURBANISE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SUBURBANISE scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in SUBURBANISE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| b | 2 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SUBURBANISE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does SUBURBANISE mean in Scrabble?
verb
British
To make a place take on the character of a suburb.
To suburbanise a district is to fill it with estates, shops and commuters until it loses its rural or city feel. The British spelling uses an s where American writers prefer a z.
How SUBURBANISE is used
Used mostly in British English about countryside or city districts that become residential suburbs.
- Developers planned to suburbanise the old farmland by the river.
- The village began to suburbanise once the railway arrived.
- Critics said the new estates would suburbanise the whole valley.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SUBURBANISE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SUBURBANISE
2 longer words begin with SUBURBANISE.
Shorter words from the letters in SUBURBANISE
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Common questions about SUBURBANISE
- Is SUBURBANISE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SUBURBANISE, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SUBURBANISE worth?
- SUBURBANISE is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SUBURBANISE mean?
- To make a place take on the character of a suburb.
- What letters can be added to SUBURBANISE?
- SUBURBANISE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of SUBURBANISE:
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