VENUE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. VENUE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept VENUE?
| 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 VENUE is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VENUE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How VENUE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in VENUE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 23,765.
What does VENUE mean in Scrabble?
noun
The place where an event is held.
Venue began in law, where it meant the county a case had to be tried in, and moving it was a serious application rather than a matter of taste. The modern sense arrived through sport and entertainment in the twentieth century, and the legal one survives now only in the phrase about a change of it.
How VENUE is used
Countable: a venue, two venues. Common in change of venue and venue hire.
- The venue was changed a fortnight before the date.
- A venue that size needs six hundred people to feel full.
- They lost the deposit when the venue closed.
- Half the cost of any event is the venue.
- The application was for a change of venue and was refused.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VENUE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with VENUE
1 longer words begin with VENUE.
Words ending in VENUE
3 words end in VENUE. Useful as a back hook: play VENUE onto a word already on the board.
Words with VENUE inside
6 words contain VENUE in the middle. Words that start with VENUE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in VENUE
Common questions about VENUE
- Is VENUE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts VENUE, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is VENUE worth?
- VENUE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VENUE mean?
- The place where an event is held.
- What letters can be added to VENUE?
- VENUE takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of VENUE:
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