AECIDIUM is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. AECIDIUM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AECIDIUM?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AECIDIUM is to know. It scores 13 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AECIDIUM
No single letter turns AECIDIUM into another word.
How AECIDIUM scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in AECIDIUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so AECIDIUM has to be built on the board across turns.
What does AECIDIUM mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A cup-shaped fruiting structure of a rust fungus that releases spores.
Rust fungi form an aecidium on the leaves of their host plant, where a cluster of orange cups releases spores. Modern texts prefer the shorter form aecium, but aecidium remains in older mycology.
How AECIDIUM is used
Specialist term of mycology and plant disease studies.
- An orange aecidium broke through the underside of the leaf.
- The aecidium released its spores in the warm damp air.
- Botanists counted every aecidium on the infected barberry.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AECIDIUM and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in AECIDIUM
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Common questions about AECIDIUM
- Is AECIDIUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AECIDIUM, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AECIDIUM worth?
- AECIDIUM is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AECIDIUM mean?
- A cup-shaped fruiting structure of a rust fungus that releases spores.
- What letters can be added to AECIDIUM?
- No single letter can be added to AECIDIUM to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of AECIDIUM:
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