TENUIS is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. TENUIS 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 TENUIS?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TENUIS is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TENUIS
No single letter turns TENUIS into another word.
How TENUIS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in TENUIS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,162.
What stands out about TENUIS
- The same 6 tiles also spell 3 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 TENUIS mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A voiceless stop consonant produced without aspiration, such as an unaspirated p, t, or k.
Linguists use tenuis to describe a particular kind of consonant sound: one made by briefly stopping the airflow, as with p, t, and k, but released without the extra puff of breath that marks an aspirated version of the same sound. The distinction matters in languages such as ancient Greek, which grouped consonants into tenues, aspirated, and voiced sets, and in modern languages like French or Spanish, where a tenuis p sounds noticeably different from the aspirated p typical of English. The plural form is tenues.
How TENUIS is used
A technical term from phonetics, used to classify unaspirated voiceless stop consonants in a language's sound system.
- French speakers produce a tenuis p with no puff of air after it.
- Ancient Greek grammar distinguishes the tenuis from its aspirated partner.
- The linguist marked each tenuis consonant in the transcription.
- An English speaker often mistakes a tenuis stop for a voiced one.
- The textbook listed p, t, and k among the tenuis sounds of the language.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TENUIS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TENUIS
The 6 tiles of TENUIS in a different order — 3 found.
Shorter words from the letters in TENUIS
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Common questions about TENUIS
- Is TENUIS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TENUIS, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TENUIS worth?
- TENUIS is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TENUIS mean?
- A voiceless stop consonant produced without aspiration, such as an unaspirated p, t, or k.
- What letters can be added to TENUIS?
- No single letter can be added to TENUIS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of TENUIS:
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