UNCANNINESS is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. UNCANNINESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept UNCANNINESS?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UNCANNINESS is to know. It scores 13 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UNCANNINESS
No single letter turns UNCANNINESS into another word.
How UNCANNINESS scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in UNCANNINESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 4 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so UNCANNINESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about UNCANNINESS
- The letter N appears four times in UNCANNINESS.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does UNCANNINESS mean in Scrabble?
noun
The quality of being strange in a way that is eerie and unsettling.
Uncanniness is the chill felt when something familiar turns slightly wrong, like a doll that looks almost alive. It can also mean a skill so exact that it seems beyond what is normal. The word shows up often in talk of horror stories and lifelike robots.
How UNCANNINESS is used
Uncanniness is used for eerie or strangely accurate qualities in people, places, and machines.
- The uncanniness of the empty house made her shiver.
- Viewers noted the uncanniness of the lifelike robot.
- There was an uncanniness in the way he guessed the answer.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UNCANNINESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with UNCANNINESS
1 longer words begin with UNCANNINESS.
Shorter words from the letters in UNCANNINESS
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Common questions about UNCANNINESS
- Is UNCANNINESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts UNCANNINESS, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is UNCANNINESS worth?
- UNCANNINESS is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UNCANNINESS mean?
- The quality of being strange in a way that is eerie and unsettling.
- What letters can be added to UNCANNINESS?
- No single letter can be added to UNCANNINESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of UNCANNINESS:
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