AVULSE is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. AVULSE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AVULSE?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AVULSE is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AVULSE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AVULSE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in AVULSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 86,231.
What does AVULSE mean in Scrabble?
verb
medical
To tear something away by force, especially a body part from its normal attachment.
Surgeons and dentists use the verb for a tearing separation, as when a tooth is knocked clean out of its socket. It goes back to the Latin word for plucking away, and the noun avulsion is far more familiar than the verb itself. The action is violent and sudden, which separates it from a careful cut. Outside medicine the word is also used in geology, where a river avulses when it abruptly leaves its old channel.
How AVULSE is used
Technical; mostly in medical and geological writing, and often as the noun avulsion.
- A hard blow can avulse a tooth from its socket.
- The tendon may avulse a small piece of bone when it tears.
- Floodwater can avulse a whole bank and carry it downstream.
- The surgeon explained how the nerve could avulse from the spinal cord.
- A heavy fall might avulse the nail from the toe.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AVULSE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of AVULSE
The 6 tiles of AVULSE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with AVULSE
2 longer words begin with AVULSE.
Shorter words from the letters in AVULSE
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Common questions about AVULSE
- Is AVULSE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AVULSE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AVULSE worth?
- AVULSE is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AVULSE mean?
- To tear something away by force, especially a body part from its normal attachment.
- What letters can be added to AVULSE?
- AVULSE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of AVULSE:
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