VANITAS is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. VANITAS 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 VANITAS?
| 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: 49 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VANITAS is to know. It scores 10 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VANITAS
No single letter turns VANITAS into another word.
How VANITAS scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in VANITAS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 171,549.
What does VANITAS mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A still-life painting, especially Dutch of the seventeenth century, that uses symbols to remind viewers that life is short.
Typical vanitas pictures show skulls, burning candles, wilting flowers and hourglasses placed among rich objects. The message is that wealth and pleasure fade, so the genre mixes beauty with a warning.
How VANITAS is used
Vanitas is an art history term, and the name comes from Latin for vanity.
- The museum hung a famous vanitas beside the window.
- A skull and a candle stub are standard props in a vanitas.
- The student wrote an essay on the symbols in a Dutch vanitas.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VANITAS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with VANITAS
1 longer words begin with VANITAS.
Shorter words from the letters in VANITAS
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Common questions about VANITAS
- Is VANITAS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts VANITAS, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is VANITAS worth?
- VANITAS is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VANITAS mean?
- A still-life painting, especially Dutch of the seventeenth century, that uses symbols to remind viewers that life is short.
- What letters can be added to VANITAS?
- No single letter can be added to VANITAS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of VANITAS:
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