Is MENDICANTS a valid Scrabble word?
Yes, MENDICANTS is a valid word in US Scrabble and UK Scrabble, worth 15 points.
Base score before bonus squares; blank tiles score zero.
What does MENDICANTS mean?
Mendicants is a form of MENDICANT.
- noun
a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms
- noun
a pauper who lives by begging
- adjective
practicing beggary
“mendicant friars”
Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University.
Points
15
Scrabble
19
Words With Friends
10
Letters
M (3) + E (1) + N (1) + D (2) + I (1) + C (3) + A (1) + N (1) + T (1) + S (1) = 15 points in Scrabble.
Dictionary status
- Scrabble (US & Canada)Valid
- Scrabble (UK & worldwide)Valid
- Words With FriendsListed
Scrabble lists: NWL2023 (US & Canada) and CSW24 (UK & worldwide). WWF uses our ENABLE reference plus verified additions. “Listed” and “Not listed” describe that reference; check acceptance in the game. Sources reviewed 2026-10-03.
Hooks for MENDICANTS
MENDICANTS has no one-letter front or back hooks in US Scrabble. Adding a single letter to either end does not make another word in that list.
Front hooks0
None — nothing can be added to the front.
Back hooks0
None — nothing can be added to the end.
Words you can make from MENDICANTS
The 60 highest-scoring words using these letters.
- medicants14
- mendicant14
- medicant13
- misacted13
- instanced12
- amnestic12
- nematics12
- semantic12
- danciest11
- distance11
- incanted11
- mediants11
- scandent11
- amnesic11
- cinemas11
- meticas11
- nematic11
- sematic11
- medics11
- minced11
- ancients10
- canniest10
- insectan10
- instance10
- mannites10
- candent10
- candies10
- dacites10
- damnest10
- decants10
- descant10
- diastem10
- discant10
- incased10
- maidens10
- mantids10
- medians10
- mediant10
- medinas10
- mindset10
- misdate10
- mistend10
- sandmen10
- scanned10
- scanted10
- sideman10
- tandems10
- amices10
- anemic10
- camise10
- cinema10
- iceman10
- manics10
- mantic10
- mastic10
- metica10
- minces10
- misact10
- demic10
- maced10
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