APOTHECIUM is a valid Scrabble word — 19 points
Yes. APOTHECIUM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 19 points in Scrabble and 22 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept APOTHECIUM?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful APOTHECIUM is to know. It scores 19 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for APOTHECIUM
No single letter turns APOTHECIUM into another word.
How APOTHECIUM scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in APOTHECIUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so APOTHECIUM has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about APOTHECIUM
- All 10 letters of APOTHECIUM are different — nothing repeats.
- APOTHECIUM contains every vowel — A, E, I, O and U.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does APOTHECIUM mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting body of some fungi and lichens that bears spores.
Looking closely at a lichen, one often sees small disc-like apothecia on the surface, which is the plural. Inside each apothecium the spore-bearing sacs line an open layer that releases spores into the air.
How APOTHECIUM is used
Used in botany and mycology for the open spore-producing body of certain fungi and lichens.
- The orange apothecium sat like a tiny dish on the bark.
- Under the lens each apothecium showed rows of spore sacs.
- Botanists identified the lichen by its black apothecium.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of APOTHECIUM and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
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Common questions about APOTHECIUM
- Is APOTHECIUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts APOTHECIUM, where it scores 22 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is APOTHECIUM worth?
- APOTHECIUM is worth 19 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words with Friends.
- What does APOTHECIUM mean?
- A cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting body of some fungi and lichens that bears spores.
- What letters can be added to APOTHECIUM?
- No single letter can be added to APOTHECIUM to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of APOTHECIUM:
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