ADUNC is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. ADUNC 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 ADUNC?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ADUNC is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ADUNC
No single letter turns ADUNC into another word.
How ADUNC scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ADUNC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does ADUNC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Curved or hooked, especially describing a beak, claw, or nose.
Adunc comes from the Latin aduncus, meaning bent or hooked, and survives mainly in older natural history writing and heraldic description. It describes a shape that curves sharply inward, such as the beak of a bird of prey. The word is rare in modern English and appears almost exclusively in formal, technical, or archaic description.
How ADUNC is used
Rare, literary adjective; found chiefly in older or specialist descriptive writing.
- The falcon's adunc beak tore easily through the flesh.
- Illustrators exaggerated the vulture's adunc profile.
- An adunc claw curved from each of the creature's toes.
- The old naturalist noted the hawk's sharply adunc bill.
- Heraldic manuals sometimes describe a beak as adunc when strongly curved.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ADUNC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ADUNC
5 longer words begin with ADUNC.
Shorter words from the letters in ADUNC
Common questions about ADUNC
- Is ADUNC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ADUNC, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ADUNC worth?
- ADUNC is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ADUNC mean?
- Curved or hooked, especially describing a beak, claw, or nose.
- What letters can be added to ADUNC?
- No single letter can be added to ADUNC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ADUNC:
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