TERCET is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. TERCET is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TERCET?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TERCET is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TERCET
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
tercetsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TERCET scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in TERCET, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 2 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 100,341.
What stands out about TERCET
- TERCET begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does TERCET mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
A group of three lines of verse, usually linked by rhyme.
A tercet can stand alone as a tiny poem or form one stanza of a longer work. Dante's Divine Comedy is built from interlocking tercets in terza rima, and many sonnets close with a final tercet after an opening octave. Poets choose it when two lines feel too brief and four too heavy.
How TERCET is used
Term of poetry and prosody.
- The poem ends with a single tercet that echoes its first line.
- Each tercet in the sequence rhymes on its first and third lines.
- She wrote a tercet about the first frost.
- The teacher asked the class to scan the opening tercet.
- A tercet of plain words closed the long elegy.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TERCET and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TERCET
1 longer words begin with TERCET.
Shorter words from the letters in TERCET
Common questions about TERCET
- Is TERCET valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TERCET, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TERCET worth?
- TERCET is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TERCET mean?
- A group of three lines of verse, usually linked by rhyme.
- What letters can be added to TERCET?
- TERCET takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of TERCET:
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