APOTHECARY is a valid Scrabble word — 20 points
Yes. APOTHECARY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 20 points in Scrabble and 20 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept APOTHECARY?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful APOTHECARY is to know. It scores 20 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for APOTHECARY
No single letter turns APOTHECARY into another word.
How APOTHECARY scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in APOTHECARY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so APOTHECARY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does APOTHECARY mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A person who prepared and sold medicines, working as a forerunner of the modern pharmacist.
In earlier centuries an apothecary mixed remedies and often gave medical advice, since doctors were costly. The word survives in shop names and historical novels, and in the name of a standard system of weights.
How APOTHECARY is used
Mostly historical or deliberately old-fashioned.
- The village apothecary ground herbs into powder.
- Romeo bought poison from an apothecary.
- Jars of dried roots lined the apothecary shelves.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of APOTHECARY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in APOTHECARY
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Common questions about APOTHECARY
- Is APOTHECARY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts APOTHECARY, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is APOTHECARY worth?
- APOTHECARY is worth 20 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does APOTHECARY mean?
- A person who prepared and sold medicines, working as a forerunner of the modern pharmacist.
- What letters can be added to APOTHECARY?
- No single letter can be added to APOTHECARY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of APOTHECARY:
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