VILLANELLE is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. VILLANELLE 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 VILLANELLE?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VILLANELLE is to know. It scores 13 from 10 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VILLANELLE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
villanellesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How VILLANELLE scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in VILLANELLE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 4 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so VILLANELLE has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about VILLANELLE
- The letter L appears four times in VILLANELLE.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does VILLANELLE mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
A nineteen-line poem of five three-line stanzas and a final four-line stanza, built on two rhymes and two repeating lines.
The strict repetition in a villanelle gives it an obsessive, circling feel, which suits grief and memory. Famous English examples show how the repeated lines change meaning as the poem goes on.
How VILLANELLE is used
Villanelle is used in literary study and poetry workshops to name this fixed form.
- She wrote a villanelle about her late grandmother.
- Every villanelle repeats its first and third lines in turn.
- The villanelle demands patience with its two rhymes.
- We studied a famous villanelle in class.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VILLANELLE and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with VILLANELLE
1 longer words begin with VILLANELLE.
Shorter words from the letters in VILLANELLE
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Common questions about VILLANELLE
- Is VILLANELLE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts VILLANELLE, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is VILLANELLE worth?
- VILLANELLE is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VILLANELLE mean?
- A nineteen-line poem of five three-line stanzas and a final four-line stanza, built on two rhymes and two repeating lines.
- What letters can be added to VILLANELLE?
- VILLANELLE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of VILLANELLE:
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