ARCHEGONIUM is a valid Scrabble word — 19 points
Yes. ARCHEGONIUM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 19 points in Scrabble and 23 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ARCHEGONIUM?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ARCHEGONIUM is to know. It scores 19 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ARCHEGONIUM
No single letter turns ARCHEGONIUM into another word.
How ARCHEGONIUM scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in ARCHEGONIUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ARCHEGONIUM has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about ARCHEGONIUM
- All 11 letters of ARCHEGONIUM are different — nothing repeats.
- ARCHEGONIUM 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 ARCHEGONIUM mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
The flask-shaped female reproductive organ of mosses, ferns and some conifers, which holds the egg cell.
In an archegonium the egg waits at the base of a narrow neck, and sperm swim down to reach it. The structure is a mark of the plant groups that evolved on land from algae.
How ARCHEGONIUM is used
Used in botany textbooks; the plural is archegonia.
- Under the microscope, each archegonium looked like a tiny bottle.
- The sperm swam to the archegonium through a film of water.
- Students drew a fern archegonium and labelled the neck.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ARCHEGONIUM and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ARCHEGONIUM
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Common questions about ARCHEGONIUM
- Is ARCHEGONIUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ARCHEGONIUM, where it scores 23 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ARCHEGONIUM worth?
- ARCHEGONIUM is worth 19 points in Scrabble and 23 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ARCHEGONIUM mean?
- The flask-shaped female reproductive organ of mosses, ferns and some conifers, which holds the egg cell.
- What letters can be added to ARCHEGONIUM?
- No single letter can be added to ARCHEGONIUM to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of ARCHEGONIUM:
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