ANLAGE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. ANLAGE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ANLAGE?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANLAGE is to know. It scores 7 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANLAGE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ANLAGE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ANLAGE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,325.
What stands out about ANLAGE
- The same 6 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ANLAGE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The earliest recognizable cluster of cells in an embryo from which a particular organ or body structure will later develop.
Anlage is a German loanword, literally meaning a laying-down or foundation, adopted directly into English embryology because it captures the idea precisely: a small group of cells marking out where an organ will eventually form. Before an anlage takes on any recognizable shape, it already carries the instructions that steer its later development into, for example, a limb, an eye or part of the heart. Biologists sometimes use the more Latinate term primordium for the same idea, and the two words are largely interchangeable in embryology texts.
How ANLAGE is used
A specialist term confined mostly to embryology and developmental biology.
- The limb anlage becomes visible in the embryo within the first weeks.
- Researchers tracked how the heart anlage folds into a tube.
- Damage to the eye anlage can prevent the eye from forming properly.
- Textbooks describe the tooth anlage as a thickened band of cells.
- The anlage for the kidney appears before the limbs are fully formed.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANLAGE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ANLAGE
The 6 tiles of ANLAGE in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with ANLAGE
2 longer words begin with ANLAGE.
Shorter words from the letters in ANLAGE
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Common questions about ANLAGE
- Is ANLAGE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANLAGE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANLAGE worth?
- ANLAGE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANLAGE mean?
- The earliest recognizable cluster of cells in an embryo from which a particular organ or body structure will later develop.
- What letters can be added to ANLAGE?
- ANLAGE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ANLAGE:
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