ALLANTOIC is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. ALLANTOIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ALLANTOIC?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ALLANTOIC is to know. It scores 11 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ALLANTOIC
No single letter turns ALLANTOIC into another word.
How ALLANTOIC scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in ALLANTOIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ALLANTOIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ALLANTOIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medical
Relating to the allantois, a membrane that forms in the embryos of many animals.
The allantois is a pouch growing from the gut of an embryo in reptiles, birds and mammals, and anything allantoic belongs to it. In mammals it helps form the umbilical cord. The word appears almost only in embryology and veterinary science.
How ALLANTOIC is used
A specialist term, used in phrases such as allantoic fluid or allantoic membrane.
- The allantoic fluid surrounds the developing chick.
- A cyst of the allantoic duct was found.
- Students labelled the allantoic sac on the diagram.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ALLANTOIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ALLANTOIC
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Common questions about ALLANTOIC
- Is ALLANTOIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ALLANTOIC, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ALLANTOIC worth?
- ALLANTOIC is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ALLANTOIC mean?
- Relating to the allantois, a membrane that forms in the embryos of many animals.
- What letters can be added to ALLANTOIC?
- No single letter can be added to ALLANTOIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of ALLANTOIC:
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