AUTOCLAVE is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. AUTOCLAVE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AUTOCLAVE?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AUTOCLAVE is to know. It scores 14 from 9 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AUTOCLAVE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AUTOCLAVE scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in AUTOCLAVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so AUTOCLAVE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does AUTOCLAVE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A strong sealed chamber in which steam under high pressure and temperature is used to sterilise equipment or drive chemical reactions.
Hospitals pass surgical tools through an autoclave to kill every germ, and laboratories use one for growth media. The word also works as a verb meaning to treat something in this way.
How AUTOCLAVE is used
Used in medicine, laboratories and industry.
- The nurse placed the instruments in the autoclave.
- An autoclave reaches temperatures high enough to destroy bacteria.
- The factory cured composite parts in a large autoclave.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AUTOCLAVE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of AUTOCLAVE
The 9 tiles of AUTOCLAVE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with AUTOCLAVE
2 longer words begin with AUTOCLAVE.
Shorter words from the letters in AUTOCLAVE
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Common questions about AUTOCLAVE
- Is AUTOCLAVE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AUTOCLAVE, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AUTOCLAVE worth?
- AUTOCLAVE is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AUTOCLAVE mean?
- A strong sealed chamber in which steam under high pressure and temperature is used to sterilise equipment or drive chemical reactions.
- What letters can be added to AUTOCLAVE?
- AUTOCLAVE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of AUTOCLAVE:
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