TANH is valid in Collins, not in North America — 7 points
It depends on the list you play by. TANH is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 7 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept TANH?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TANH is to know. It scores 7 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TANH
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
tanhsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TANH scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in TANH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 6,051.
What stands out about TANH
- The same 4 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does TANH mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The hyperbolic tangent, a mathematical ratio built from sinh and cosh.
Tanh is written as a name rather than spelled out, the way sin and cos are, and calculators and programming languages all recognise it directly. Its graph is an S-shaped curve that flattens out toward plus one and minus one, which makes it useful whenever a value needs to be squeezed into that range.
How TANH is used
Written tanh(x) in mathematics; pronounced to rhyme with ranch, or spelled out.
- The function tanh appears throughout signal processing.
- A calculator gives tanh of zero as exactly zero.
- Neural networks once used tanh as a standard activation.
- The curve of tanh flattens quickly on either side of the origin.
- Students often confuse tanh with the ordinary tangent function.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TANH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TANH
The 4 tiles of TANH in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with TANH
1 longer words begin with TANH.
Words with TANH inside
2 words contain TANH in the middle. Words that start with TANH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TANH
Common questions about TANH
- Is TANH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and TANH is not in it.
- How many points is TANH worth?
- TANH is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TANH mean?
- The hyperbolic tangent, a mathematical ratio built from sinh and cosh.
- What letters can be added to TANH?
- TANH takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of TANH:
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