TALLNESS is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. TALLNESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TALLNESS?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TALLNESS is to know. It scores 8 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TALLNESS
No single letter turns TALLNESS into another word.
How TALLNESS scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in TALLNESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so TALLNESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does TALLNESS mean in Scrabble?
noun
The quality of having great height, especially in a person, tree, or building.
Tallness is usually judged against what is normal for the kind of thing being measured, so a tall child and a tall tower are very different heights. In sport and in design, tallness can be a clear advantage or a practical problem.
How TALLNESS is used
Tallness is used for the quality of being tall, most often when talking about people, plants, or structures.
- His tallness meant he had to duck under every doorway in the old cottage.
- The tallness of the pines made the forest path feel like a cathedral aisle.
- Basketball scouts look for tallness, but also for speed and balance.
- She was teased about her tallness at school, though she later grew proud of it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TALLNESS and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TALLNESS
1 longer words begin with TALLNESS.
Shorter words from the letters in TALLNESS
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Common questions about TALLNESS
- Is TALLNESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TALLNESS, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TALLNESS worth?
- TALLNESS is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TALLNESS mean?
- The quality of having great height, especially in a person, tree, or building.
- What letters can be added to TALLNESS?
- No single letter can be added to TALLNESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of TALLNESS:
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