TERCE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. TERCE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TERCE?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TERCE is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 7.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TERCE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TERCE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TERCE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 15,843.
What does TERCE mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
One of the traditional canonical hours of Christian prayer, observed at about nine in the morning, midway between dawn and midday.
Monastic communities structured their day around a set of prayer hours, and terce marked the third of these, following prime and preceding sext, roughly nine o'clock in the morning by the old Roman method of counting hours from sunrise. Monks and nuns paused their other work to gather and recite psalms and prayers at terce, keeping the practice going through the day at fixed intervals. The word survives today mainly in descriptions of monastic life and in some traditional prayer books that still list terce among the daily offices.
How TERCE is used
Chiefly encountered in descriptions of monastic life and traditional Christian prayer books.
- The monks gathered in the chapel to pray terce.
- Bells rang across the abbey to announce terce.
- The old missal listed terce among the daily hours.
- She read about how medieval life was ordered around terce.
- The community observed terce shortly after breakfast.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TERCE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TERCE
The 5 tiles of TERCE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with TERCE
11 longer words begin with TERCE.
Words ending in TERCE
1 words end in TERCE. Useful as a back hook: play TERCE onto a word already on the board.
Words with TERCE inside
Showing 24 of 31 words that contain TERCE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with TERCE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TERCE
Common questions about TERCE
- Is TERCE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TERCE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TERCE worth?
- TERCE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TERCE mean?
- One of the traditional canonical hours of Christian prayer, observed at about nine in the morning, midway between dawn and midday.
- What letters can be added to TERCE?
- TERCE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TERCE:
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