ABORAL is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. ABORAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ABORAL?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ABORAL is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ABORAL
No single letter turns ABORAL into another word.
How ABORAL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ABORAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 86,231.
What does ABORAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
zoology
Situated at, or facing toward, the side of an animal that is opposite its mouth.
Biologists use aboral to describe the far side of simple animals such as starfish and jellyfish, which lack a clear front and back the way more familiar animals do. The mouth marks one pole of the body, and whatever lies opposite it, away from the mouth, is called the aboral side. The term appears constantly in descriptions of echinoderm and cnidarian anatomy.
How ABORAL is used
A technical term from zoology, used mainly to describe the anatomy of simple marine animals.
- The starfish's aboral surface faced upward, away from the seabed.
- Sensory cells cluster near the aboral pole of the jellyfish.
- The diagram labelled the aboral and oral sides of the sea urchin.
- Researchers examined the aboral tissue for signs of regeneration.
- The aboral end of the larva develops into the adult's back.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ABORAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ABORAL
1 longer words begin with ABORAL.
Shorter words from the letters in ABORAL
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Common questions about ABORAL
- Is ABORAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ABORAL, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ABORAL worth?
- ABORAL is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ABORAL mean?
- Situated at, or facing toward, the side of an animal that is opposite its mouth.
- What letters can be added to ABORAL?
- No single letter can be added to ABORAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ABORAL:
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