AREAE is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. AREAE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AREAE?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AREAE is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 9.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AREAE
No single letter turns AREAE into another word.
How AREAE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in AREAE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 5,281.
What stands out about AREAE
- AREAE 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 AREAE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A rarely used plural of area, naming several distinct surface regions at once, chiefly in scientific description.
Areae shows up mostly in older scientific and technical writing when a text needs to name several separate surface regions together, for example distinct zones on a shell, a leaf, or a planetary surface. Everyday English almost always uses areas instead, so areae reads as a deliberately learned or old-fashioned plural. Meeting the word usually signals a specialist source such as a scientific classification or description.
How AREAE is used
Rare and technical, confined mostly to older or specialist scientific writing rather than everyday use.
- The paper listed several areae on the shell's surface.
- Early maps of Mars named broad dark areae.
- The naturalist marked distinct areae on the leaf diagram.
- Two separate areae were visible under the microscope.
- The old classification distinguished five areae on the wing.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AREAE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in AREAE
Common questions about AREAE
- Is AREAE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AREAE, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AREAE worth?
- AREAE is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AREAE mean?
- A rarely used plural of area, naming several distinct surface regions at once, chiefly in scientific description.
- What letters can be added to AREAE?
- No single letter can be added to AREAE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of AREAE:
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