ACAUDATE is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. ACAUDATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ACAUDATE?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ACAUDATE is to know. It scores 11 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ACAUDATE
No single letter turns ACAUDATE into another word.
How ACAUDATE scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in ACAUDATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 3 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ACAUDATE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ACAUDATE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
zoology
Lacking a tail, either naturally or as a lifelong feature of a species.
An acaudate animal never grows a tail, or loses it entirely in adulthood, as frogs do after tadpole life. The word is a biologist label rather than a casual description. It is a neat alternative to the more common tailless.
How ACAUDATE is used
Acaudate is used in zoology to describe animals with no tail.
- The adult frog is acaudate, though its tadpole had a long tail.
- Naturalists call the Manx cat a partly acaudate breed.
- An acaudate fossil was found beside the ancient lake.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ACAUDATE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ACAUDATE
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Common questions about ACAUDATE
- Is ACAUDATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ACAUDATE, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ACAUDATE worth?
- ACAUDATE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ACAUDATE mean?
- Lacking a tail, either naturally or as a lifelong feature of a species.
- What letters can be added to ACAUDATE?
- No single letter can be added to ACAUDATE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of ACAUDATE:
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