ARBOREOUS is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. ARBOREOUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ARBOREOUS?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ARBOREOUS is to know. It scores 11 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ARBOREOUS
No single letter turns ARBOREOUS into another word.
How ARBOREOUS scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in ARBOREOUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ARBOREOUS has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about ARBOREOUS
- ARBOREOUS runs three vowels in a row, which almost no English word does.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ARBOREOUS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Thickly covered with trees, or living among and belonging to trees.
Writers reach for arboreous when they want a woodland flavour that plain "wooded" lacks. It can describe a landscape full of trees as easily as a creature that makes its home in the branches.
How ARBOREOUS is used
Arboreous appears mostly in nature writing and older prose, for scenery or for tree-dwelling animals.
- The arboreous slopes above the village hid every path from view.
- An arboreous frog clung to the underside of a broad leaf.
- They hiked for hours through arboreous country without seeing open sky.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ARBOREOUS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ARBOREOUS
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Common questions about ARBOREOUS
- Is ARBOREOUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ARBOREOUS, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ARBOREOUS worth?
- ARBOREOUS is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ARBOREOUS mean?
- Thickly covered with trees, or living among and belonging to trees.
- What letters can be added to ARBOREOUS?
- No single letter can be added to ARBOREOUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of ARBOREOUS:
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