CANCEROUS is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. CANCEROUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CANCEROUS?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CANCEROUS is to know. It scores 13 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CANCEROUS
No single letter turns CANCEROUS into another word.
How CANCEROUS scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in CANCEROUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CANCEROUS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does CANCEROUS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Affected by cancer or showing the abnormal growth typical of it.
Doctors describe a cell, lump or tissue as cancerous after testing. Outside medicine, a cancerous influence is one that slowly spreads and damages everything around it.
How CANCEROUS is used
The word cancerous is used for tissue in medicine and for harmful spreading things in figurative speech.
- The biopsy showed that the lump was cancerous.
- Surgeons removed the cancerous tissue.
- Corruption had become a cancerous problem in the city.
- Not every growth turns out to be cancerous.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CANCEROUS and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CANCEROUS
1 longer words begin with CANCEROUS.
Shorter words from the letters in CANCEROUS
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Common questions about CANCEROUS
- Is CANCEROUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CANCEROUS, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CANCEROUS worth?
- CANCEROUS is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CANCEROUS mean?
- Affected by cancer or showing the abnormal growth typical of it.
- What letters can be added to CANCEROUS?
- No single letter can be added to CANCEROUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of CANCEROUS:
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