AKENE is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. AKENE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AKENE?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AKENE is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 8.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AKENE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
akenesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AKENE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in AKENE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,124.
What does AKENE mean in Scrabble?
noun
botanytechnical
A dry, single-seeded fruit that does not split open when ripe; a variant spelling of achene.
Plants such as the sunflower and the buttercup produce an akene, a small, hard fruit that encloses just one seed inside a thin, dry wall that stays closed even once the fruit is fully mature. Botanists most often meet the word in its more common spelling, achene, but akene appears as an accepted alternative in older and some current botanical writing describing exactly the same kind of fruit. What looks like a single sunflower seed sold for eating is technically an akene, with the true seed hidden inside the dry outer shell rather than the shell itself being the seed. Because an akene does not burst open to release its seed, the whole structure typically disperses as one unit, sometimes carried by wind, water or animals depending on the species.
How AKENE is used
A technical botanical term, used in plant science and horticultural writing to name this particular type of dry, one-seeded fruit.
- Each dandelion head scatters dozens of tiny akene fruits on the wind.
- The botanist examined the ridged surface of the akene under a lens.
- What people call a sunflower seed is really an akene with the seed inside.
- Wind carried the light akene far from the parent plant.
- The textbook illustrated an akene beside other types of dry fruit.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AKENE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with AKENE
1 longer words begin with AKENE.
Words with AKENE inside
14 words contain AKENE in the middle. Words that start with AKENE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in AKENE
Common questions about AKENE
- Is AKENE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AKENE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AKENE worth?
- AKENE is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AKENE mean?
- A dry, single-seeded fruit that does not split open when ripe; a variant spelling of achene.
- What letters can be added to AKENE?
- AKENE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of AKENE:
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