ABDUCE is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. ABDUCE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ABDUCE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ABDUCE is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ABDUCE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ABDUCE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ABDUCE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 172,461.
What does ABDUCE mean in Scrabble?
verb
rare
To draw or lead something away from its place, or to bring forward as evidence.
Abduce is a rare, learned word built from Latin ab, meaning away, and ducere, to lead. Writers of earlier centuries used it for pulling a part of the body away from its normal position, and a few used it as a loose variant of adduce. It should not be confused with abduct, which is the everyday word for carrying a person off by force.
How ABDUCE is used
Rare and technical; met mainly in older scientific and philosophical writing.
- The surgeon had to abduce the limb slightly to reach the joint.
- Old anatomy books say a muscle may abduce the arm from the body.
- He tried to abduce a single proof from the scattered records.
- The writer chose to abduce a new argument from the same facts.
- To abduce is to lead away, as its Latin roots show.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ABDUCE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ABDUCE
5 longer words begin with ABDUCE.
Shorter words from the letters in ABDUCE
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Common questions about ABDUCE
- Is ABDUCE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ABDUCE, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ABDUCE worth?
- ABDUCE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ABDUCE mean?
- To draw or lead something away from its place, or to bring forward as evidence.
- What letters can be added to ABDUCE?
- ABDUCE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ABDUCE:
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