BRASSICA is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. BRASSICA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BRASSICA?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BRASSICA is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BRASSICA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
brassicasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BRASSICA scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in BRASSICA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so BRASSICA has to be built on the board across turns.
What does BRASSICA mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A plant of the cabbage and mustard genus, including cabbage, broccoli, turnip and rape.
Brassica is the genus name that gardeners use for the whole cabbage family. Growers treat brassicas as a group because they share diseases such as clubroot and are rotated together in the vegetable plot.
How BRASSICA is used
Brassica is often used in the plural in gardening advice.
- Rotate your brassica crops to avoid clubroot.
- Cabbage and kale are both brassica plants.
- Netting protects the brassica bed from pigeons.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BRASSICA and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BRASSICA
2 longer words begin with BRASSICA.
Shorter words from the letters in BRASSICA
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Common questions about BRASSICA
- Is BRASSICA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BRASSICA, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BRASSICA worth?
- BRASSICA is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BRASSICA mean?
- A plant of the cabbage and mustard genus, including cabbage, broccoli, turnip and rape.
- What letters can be added to BRASSICA?
- BRASSICA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of BRASSICA:
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