TANNER is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. TANNER is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TANNER?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TANNER is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TANNER
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TANNER scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in TANNER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 20,440.
What does TANNER mean in Scrabble?
noun
A person whose trade is turning animal hides into leather by tanning, or, in older British usage, a sixpence coin.
A tanner works hides through a process, tanning, that once relied on tannin from bark and other plant matter, which is why the trade name and the chemical share the same root. Quite separately, and for reasons no one has fully explained, British slang once used tanner for the sixpence coin, a usage that survived until the coin itself disappeared with decimalisation in 1971. The two senses, tradesman and coin, are unrelated in meaning and are distinguished only by context.
How TANNER is used
The trade sense is still current wherever leather is made by hand; the coin sense is historical, remembered mainly from older British writing.
- The tanner soaked the hides in a solution of tannin.
- His grandfather worked for years as a tanner in the old part of town.
- She paid the boy a tanner for running the errand.
- The tanner's yard smelled strongly of the chemicals used in the process.
- A tanner in those days was worth six old pennies.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TANNER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TANNER
3 longer words begin with TANNER.
Shorter words from the letters in TANNER
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Common questions about TANNER
- Is TANNER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TANNER, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TANNER worth?
- TANNER is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TANNER mean?
- A person whose trade is turning animal hides into leather by tanning, or, in older British usage, a sixpence coin.
- What letters can be added to TANNER?
- TANNER takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of TANNER:
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