ACINUS is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. ACINUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ACINUS?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ACINUS is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ACINUS
No single letter turns ACINUS into another word.
How ACINUS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ACINUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 76,649.
What does ACINUS mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
A small sac-like structure, especially one that forms part of a gland or a section of lung tissue supplied by a single small airway.
Many glands, including the pancreas and salivary glands, are built from thousands of tiny acinus units, each a cluster of cells surrounding a small central space that collects secretions. In the lung, an acinus refers instead to the tissue fed by one terminal bronchiole, the functional unit where gas exchange takes place. Botanists also borrow the word for one of the small drupelets making up a fruit such as a blackberry.
How ACINUS is used
A technical term from anatomy, met mainly in descriptions of glands and lung structure.
- Each acinus in the pancreas secretes digestive fluid into a small duct.
- The lung acinus is the basic unit where oxygen crosses into the blood.
- The pathologist examined the tissue acinus by acinus.
- A blackberry is made up of many tiny fruit segments, each called an acinus.
- Damage to a single acinus rarely affects the whole gland.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ACINUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
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Common questions about ACINUS
- Is ACINUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ACINUS, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ACINUS worth?
- ACINUS is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ACINUS mean?
- A small sac-like structure, especially one that forms part of a gland or a section of lung tissue supplied by a single small airway.
- What letters can be added to ACINUS?
- No single letter can be added to ACINUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ACINUS:
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