BLASTULA is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BLASTULA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BLASTULA?
| 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: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BLASTULA is to know. It scores 10 from 8 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BLASTULA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BLASTULA scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in BLASTULA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so BLASTULA has to be built on the board across turns.
What does BLASTULA mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A hollow ball of cells, one cell thick, that forms in an animal embryo soon after the fertilised egg begins to divide.
Biology students meet the blastula as a landmark in early development, coming after the solid morula and before gastrulation folds the ball inward. The word is used for the stage as well as for the structure itself.
How BLASTULA is used
Used in embryology and general biology to name the hollow-ball stage of an embryo.
- The textbook diagram showed a blastula with a fluid-filled cavity at its centre.
- Cells of the blastula keep dividing until the embryo is ready to fold inward.
- Under the microscope, the frog blastula looked like a tiny hollow bead.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BLASTULA and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BLASTULA
5 longer words begin with BLASTULA.
Shorter words from the letters in BLASTULA
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Common questions about BLASTULA
- Is BLASTULA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BLASTULA, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BLASTULA worth?
- BLASTULA is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BLASTULA mean?
- A hollow ball of cells, one cell thick, that forms in an animal embryo soon after the fertilised egg begins to divide.
- What letters can be added to BLASTULA?
- BLASTULA takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of BLASTULA:
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