ASCUS is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. ASCUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ASCUS?
| 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: 24 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ASCUS is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ASCUS
No single letter turns ASCUS into another word.
How ASCUS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ASCUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does ASCUS mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A microscopic sac-like structure in certain fungi, inside which spores are produced through sexual reproduction.
Fungi of the group called Ascomycetes produce spores by first fusing two nuclei inside an ascus and then dividing the result, so that a single ascus typically ends up holding eight spores in a neat row. The tough wall of the ascus often bursts or splits open at maturity, firing the spores clear of the parent fungus so that air currents can carry them further. Cup fungi, morels, and many yeasts and moulds all rely on this structure at some stage of their life cycle.
How ASCUS is used
A specialist term from mycology, used when describing how sac fungi reproduce.
- Under the microscope, each ascus held eight tiny spores.
- The mushroom's ascus ruptures to release its spores into the air.
- Mycologists count spores per ascus to help identify a species.
- A single ascus can eject its spores several centimetres from the cap.
- The textbook diagram labelled the ascus and the spores inside it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ASCUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ASCUS
The 5 tiles of ASCUS in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in ASCUS
Common questions about ASCUS
- Is ASCUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ASCUS, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ASCUS worth?
- ASCUS is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ASCUS mean?
- A microscopic sac-like structure in certain fungi, inside which spores are produced through sexual reproduction.
- What letters can be added to ASCUS?
- No single letter can be added to ASCUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ASCUS:
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