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SIBILANTS

9 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What SIBILANTS Means

SIBILANTS is a form of SIBILANT, which means:

  1. noun: a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh)
  2. adjective: of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as ‘f’, ‘s’, ‘z’, or ‘th’ in both ‘thin’ and ‘then’)

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SIBILANTS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 I1 B3 I1 L1 A1 N1 T1 S1.

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.