ZEMINDARY is a valid Scrabble word — 24 points
Yes. ZEMINDARY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 24 points in Scrabble and 25 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ZEMINDARY?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ZEMINDARY is to know. It scores 24 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ZEMINDARY
No single letter turns ZEMINDARY into another word.
How ZEMINDARY scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in ZEMINDARY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| z | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ZEMINDARY has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about ZEMINDARY
- All 9 letters of ZEMINDARY are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ZEMINDARY mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
The territory or jurisdiction held by a zemindar, a landholder who collected revenue in India.
The zemindary belongs to the history of land tenure under the Mughal and British administrations in India. It stands for a whole system in which a hereditary landlord answered to the state for the taxes of his estate.
How ZEMINDARY is used
Zemindary occurs in historical and legal writing about land and revenue in the Indian subcontinent.
- The family held the zemindary for three generations.
- A dispute over the boundaries of the zemindary reached the courts.
- He inherited the zemindary after his father died.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ZEMINDARY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ZEMINDARY
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Common questions about ZEMINDARY
- Is ZEMINDARY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ZEMINDARY, where it scores 25 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ZEMINDARY worth?
- ZEMINDARY is worth 24 points in Scrabble and 25 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ZEMINDARY mean?
- The territory or jurisdiction held by a zemindar, a landholder who collected revenue in India.
- What letters can be added to ZEMINDARY?
- No single letter can be added to ZEMINDARY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of ZEMINDARY:
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