Is OSTENSIBLE a word?
OSTENSIBLE is a valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words With Friends, has 10 letters, and can be rearranged into 1 other word, plus 60 shorter words built from the same letters.
Yes, OSTENSIBLE is a valid word.
What does ostensible mean?
adjective: appearing as such but not necessarily so.
“for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent”
Definition from WordNet, Princeton University.
OSTENSIBLE: word details
- Pronunciation: ahs-TEHN-suh-buhl (approx., 4 syllables)
- Length: 10 letters, a long word. It is one of 35,784 10-letter words in our dictionary.
- Scrabble: worth 12 points on the tiles.
- Words With Friends: worth 15 points on the tiles.
- Games: recognised in the combined word list Unscrambly uses for Scrabble and Words With Friends. Acceptance in official tournament lists (TWL, SOWPODS) can vary.
Anagrams of ostensible
Shorter words inside ostensible
Words you can make from the letters of ostensible.
Solve a whole rack, not just OSTENSIBLE
OSTENSIBLE is one word. If you are holding tiles rather than looking up a single entry, the Scrabble word finder ranks every play from your rack by points, and the Words With Friends solver scores the same letters with WWF values instead, which changes the order of the list.
Frequently asked questions
What does OSTENSIBLE mean?
OSTENSIBLE is a adjective. It means: appearing as such but not necessarily so.
Is OSTENSIBLE a valid word?
Yes, OSTENSIBLE is a valid word. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words With Friends.
Unscrambly validity is based on a large open English word list used across word games. Word acceptance varies by the exact tournament dictionary in use.