SYNONYMY is a valid Scrabble word — 19 points
Yes. SYNONYMY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 19 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SYNONYMY?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SYNONYMY is to know. It scores 19 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SYNONYMY
No single letter turns SYNONYMY into another word.
How SYNONYMY scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in SYNONYMY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| y | 3 | 2 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
The Scrabble bag does not hold enough of these letters. SYNONYMY needs 1 blank tile.
What stands out about SYNONYMY
- SYNONYMY gets by on a single vowel across 8 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SYNONYMY mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The state of two words or expressions meaning the same thing, or a list of such words.
Linguists talk about synonymy when they ask how truly interchangeable two words are. In taxonomy the same term names the list of scientific names that have been used for one group of organisms.
How SYNONYMY is used
Used in linguistics and in biological classification, rarely in casual talk.
- True synonymy is rare because words differ in tone.
- The paper discusses synonymy between the two verbs.
- The botanist added a long synonymy to the species entry.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SYNONYMY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SYNONYMY
Common questions about SYNONYMY
- Is SYNONYMY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SYNONYMY, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SYNONYMY worth?
- SYNONYMY is worth 19 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SYNONYMY mean?
- The state of two words or expressions meaning the same thing, or a list of such words.
- What letters can be added to SYNONYMY?
- No single letter can be added to SYNONYMY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of SYNONYMY:
Open SYNONYMY in the Word Finder