TRESSURE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. TRESSURE 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 TRESSURE?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TRESSURE is to know. It scores 8 from 8 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TRESSURE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TRESSURE scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in TRESSURE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so TRESSURE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does TRESSURE mean in Scrabble?
noun
heraldry
A narrow inner border on a heraldic shield, usually decorated and often drawn as a double line.
In heraldry a tressure runs parallel to the edge of the shield, set slightly in from it, and is thinner than the similar orle. The most famous example is the double tressure with fleurs-de-lis in the royal arms of Scotland.
How TRESSURE is used
Tressure is used almost only in descriptions of coats of arms.
- The Scottish royal arms show a lion framed by a double tressure.
- A herald described the shield as having a tressure of fleurs-de-lis.
- The artist painted a thin gold tressure just inside the edge of the shield.
- Few modern readers have met the word tressure outside a book on heraldry.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TRESSURE and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TRESSURE
2 longer words begin with TRESSURE.
Shorter words from the letters in TRESSURE
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Common questions about TRESSURE
- Is TRESSURE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TRESSURE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TRESSURE worth?
- TRESSURE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TRESSURE mean?
- A narrow inner border on a heraldic shield, usually decorated and often drawn as a double line.
- What letters can be added to TRESSURE?
- TRESSURE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of TRESSURE:
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