TERMINER is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. TERMINER is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TERMINER?
| 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: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TERMINER is to know. It scores 10 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TERMINER
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
terminersChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TERMINER scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in TERMINER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so TERMINER has to be built on the board across turns.
What does TERMINER mean in Scrabble?
noun
legal
A determining or deciding of a legal case, found chiefly in the phrase oyer and terminer.
Terminer lives on almost only inside an old Norman French pair of words meaning to hear and to settle. Judges on a travelling commission once tried serious crimes under that name, and a few American courts kept it as a title.
How TERMINER is used
Terminer belongs to law and history, and is almost always seen in a fixed phrase.
- The king issued a commission of oyer and terminer for the county.
- The judge sat in a court of terminer to hear the case.
- Terminer is the second half of an old legal pair.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TERMINER and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TERMINER
1 longer words begin with TERMINER.
Shorter words from the letters in TERMINER
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Common questions about TERMINER
- Is TERMINER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TERMINER, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TERMINER worth?
- TERMINER is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TERMINER mean?
- A determining or deciding of a legal case, found chiefly in the phrase oyer and terminer.
- What letters can be added to TERMINER?
- TERMINER takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of TERMINER:
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