BOLETE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. BOLETE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BOLETE?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BOLETE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOLETE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
boletesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BOLETE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BOLETE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 47,035.
What does BOLETE mean in Scrabble?
noun
Any of a group of fleshy mushrooms with a spongy layer of small pores instead of gills beneath the cap.
A bolete is easy to tell apart from a typical gilled mushroom by simply turning the cap over: instead of thin blade-like gills, the underside shows a dense, sponge-like surface of tiny tube openings. Many boletes are prized as edible mushrooms and are gathered for cooking, though some species in the group are unpleasant to eat or mildly toxic, so foragers still need to identify the exact species carefully. The name applies to a large number of related fungi, most of which grow on the ground near trees, forming a close underground partnership with tree roots. Cooks and mycologists both use bolete as a convenient common name in place of the longer scientific genus name.
How BOLETE is used
Used in mushroom foraging and mycology to describe pored fungi as a group.
- The forager filled her basket with boletes found under the oak trees.
- A true bolete has pores, not gills, on the underside of its cap.
- Several bolete species turn blue when their flesh is cut or bruised.
- The field guide grouped every bolete by cap colour and pore surface.
- He fried the fresh boletes with butter and garlic.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOLETE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BOLETE
1 longer words begin with BOLETE.
Shorter words from the letters in BOLETE
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Common questions about BOLETE
- Is BOLETE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOLETE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOLETE worth?
- BOLETE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOLETE mean?
- Any of a group of fleshy mushrooms with a spongy layer of small pores instead of gills beneath the cap.
- What letters can be added to BOLETE?
- BOLETE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BOLETE:
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