SYLLABIFY is a valid Scrabble word — 20 points
Yes. SYLLABIFY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 20 points in Scrabble and 21 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SYLLABIFY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SYLLABIFY is to know. It scores 20 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SYLLABIFY
No single letter turns SYLLABIFY into another word.
How SYLLABIFY scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in SYLLABIFY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| y | 2 | 2 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SYLLABIFY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does SYLLABIFY mean in Scrabble?
verb
technical
To divide a word into its syllables.
Teachers ask children to syllabify long words so they can read them one beat at a time. Linguists also syllabify to study stress and rhythm, and dictionaries do it to show where a word may break at a line end.
How SYLLABIFY is used
Used in education and linguistics.
- Students learn to syllabify "umbrella" as um-brel-la.
- The software can syllabify English text automatically.
- It is tricky to syllabify words borrowed from other languages.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SYLLABIFY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SYLLABIFY
1 longer words begin with SYLLABIFY.
Shorter words from the letters in SYLLABIFY
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Common questions about SYLLABIFY
- Is SYLLABIFY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SYLLABIFY, where it scores 21 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SYLLABIFY worth?
- SYLLABIFY is worth 20 points in Scrabble and 21 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SYLLABIFY mean?
- To divide a word into its syllables.
- What letters can be added to SYLLABIFY?
- No single letter can be added to SYLLABIFY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of SYLLABIFY:
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