UNSEX is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. UNSEX 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.
Which word lists accept UNSEX?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UNSEX is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UNSEX
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
unsexyChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How UNSEX scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in UNSEX, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does UNSEX mean in Scrabble?
verb
literaryarchaic
To deprive a person of the qualities, feelings or nature considered characteristic of their sex.
Unsex is best known from Lady Macbeth's appeal in Shakespeare's play to be stripped of qualities she associates with womanhood, so that she can act with ruthless resolve. The verb implies removing not physical sex but the emotional or social traits a culture attaches to being male or female, such as gentleness or tenderness. Because the word is so strongly tied to that one famous passage, later writers who use unsex are often making a deliberate literary echo rather than reaching for a plain, everyday term. Outside quotation and literary allusion, unsex is rarely used in modern speech.
How UNSEX is used
Literary and archaic; encountered mainly in quotation of, or allusion to, Shakespeare's Macbeth.
- The famous line asks the spirits to unsex me here.
- Critics discussed how the speech seeks to unsex the character before the murder.
- The director staged the scene to show her attempt to unsex herself.
- Later poets echoed the wish to unsex in their own dark verses.
- The essay examined why Lady Macbeth wants to unsex her own nature.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UNSEX and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of UNSEX
The 5 tiles of UNSEX in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with UNSEX
11 longer words begin with UNSEX.
Shorter words from the letters in UNSEX
Common questions about UNSEX
- Is UNSEX valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts UNSEX, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is UNSEX worth?
- UNSEX is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UNSEX mean?
- To deprive a person of the qualities, feelings or nature considered characteristic of their sex.
- What letters can be added to UNSEX?
- UNSEX takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of UNSEX:
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