VILLAINESS is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. VILLAINESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept VILLAINESS?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VILLAINESS is to know. It scores 13 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VILLAINESS
No single letter turns VILLAINESS into another word.
How VILLAINESS scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in VILLAINESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so VILLAINESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does VILLAINESS mean in Scrabble?
noun
A wicked woman, especially a female character who drives the evil plot of a story.
Villainess marks the gender of the wrongdoer, and is common in film and theatre criticism. Many writers now prefer plain villain, so villainess can sound slightly old-fashioned.
How VILLAINESS is used
Villainess appears mainly in talk about fiction, such as films, novels, plays and pantomime.
- The villainess stole every scene she was in.
- In the pantomime, the villainess was booed loudly.
- A cunning villainess plots against the young prince.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VILLAINESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with VILLAINESS
1 longer words begin with VILLAINESS.
Shorter words from the letters in VILLAINESS
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Common questions about VILLAINESS
- Is VILLAINESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts VILLAINESS, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is VILLAINESS worth?
- VILLAINESS is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VILLAINESS mean?
- A wicked woman, especially a female character who drives the evil plot of a story.
- What letters can be added to VILLAINESS?
- No single letter can be added to VILLAINESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of VILLAINESS:
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