AMMONOID is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. AMMONOID 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 AMMONOID?
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AMMONOID is to know. It scores 13 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AMMONOID
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
ammonoidsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AMMONOID scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in AMMONOID, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 2 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so AMMONOID has to be built on the board across turns.
What does AMMONOID mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A member of an extinct group of sea animals with coiled, chambered shells.
Every ammonoid lived in the open sea and drifted or swam with a tentacled body protruding from its shell. Their spiral fossils are common in rocks of the Devonian to the Cretaceous and help date layers of stone. The group is wider than the ammonites, which are one part of it.
How AMMONOID is used
Used in palaeontology for the whole extinct group, while ammonite names the best-known subgroup.
- Each ammonoid shell in the cliff was a spiral the size of a plate.
- The geologist dated the layer by the ammonoid fossils it contained.
- No living ammonoid has been seen for about sixty-six million years.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AMMONOID and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with AMMONOID
1 longer words begin with AMMONOID.
Shorter words from the letters in AMMONOID
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Common questions about AMMONOID
- Is AMMONOID valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AMMONOID, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AMMONOID worth?
- AMMONOID is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AMMONOID mean?
- A member of an extinct group of sea animals with coiled, chambered shells.
- What letters can be added to AMMONOID?
- AMMONOID takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of AMMONOID:
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