Is TWELVE valid in Words with Friends?

Yes. Words with Friends accepts TWELVE, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.

How many points is TWELVE worth?

TWELVE is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.

What letters can be added to TWELVE?

TWELVE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.

TWELVE is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points

Yes. TWELVE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.

t1w4e1l1v4e1

PlayableTWELVE · 6 letters · 12 pts Scrabble · 14 pts WWF

12points in Scrabble

14points in Words with Friends

6letters

1hook available

1 in 188,140odds of drawing this rack

Which word lists accept TWELVE?

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: 36 / 100

36WORD POWER

Points per tile 35%

Hooks 25%

Bingo potential 20%

Tile availability 20%

6.33%

Our own measure of how useful TWELVE is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated

Hooks for TWELVE

Front hooks — 0

None.

Back hooks — 1

twelves13

Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.

How TWELVE scores

Scrabble t1w4e1l1v4e1 12

Words with Friends t1w4e1l2v5e1 14

Face value of the 6 tiles in TWELVE, before any board multiplier.

Tiles you need

Letter	Needed	In the bag
t	1	6
w	1	2
e	2	12
l	1	4
v	1	2

Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 188,140.

What does TWELVE mean in Scrabble?

noun

The number that comes after eleven and before thirteen, written 12; a group of that many people or things.

Twelve is a number with a long history of being preferred over ten, because it divides evenly by two, three, four and six. That is why we count eggs, inches and months in twelves, and why a day is split into two halves of twelve hours. It also names the hour of noon or midnight and the age of a child at the start of the teens.

How TWELVE is used

An everyday number word; also used as an adjective before a plural noun, as in twelve months.

There are twelve months in a year.
She counted twelve eggs into the box.
The jury of twelve returned after an hour.
My brother turns twelve on Saturday.
The clock struck twelve and the party ended.

Written for this site: 1 meaning of TWELVE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.

Words starting with TWELVE

twelves13 twelvemo16 twelvemos17 twelvefold20 twelvemonth22 twelvemonths23

6 longer words begin with TWELVE.

Shorter words from the letters in TWELVE

tewel8 tweel8 evet7 leve7 twee7 vele7 weel7 weet7 welt7 leet4 teel4 tele4 eew6 eve6 ewe6 ewt6 lev6 lew6 tew6 vee6 vet6 wee6 wet6 eel3 elt3 lee3 let3 tee3 tel3 ew5 we5 ee2 el2 et2 te2

Common questions about TWELVE

Is TWELVE valid in Words with Friends?: Yes. Words with Friends accepts TWELVE, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
How many points is TWELVE worth?: TWELVE is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
What does TWELVE mean?: The number that comes after eleven and before thirteen, written 12; a group of that many people or things.
What letters can be added to TWELVE?: TWELVE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.

Every word you can build from the 6 letters of TWELVE:

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