Sextains is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 282 anagrams from letters in sextains (aeinsstx).
1630-40; blend of two obsolete French words: sixain six-line stanza and sestine sestina
Some other sub-varieties of the sextain have rhyming final words in each stanza.
Besides this original form of the sextain several other varieties are met with in English poetry.
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