CANDLEBERRY is a valid Scrabble word — 19 points
Yes. CANDLEBERRY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 19 points in Scrabble and 22 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CANDLEBERRY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CANDLEBERRY is to know. It scores 19 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CANDLEBERRY
No single letter turns CANDLEBERRY into another word.
How CANDLEBERRY scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in CANDLEBERRY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CANDLEBERRY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does CANDLEBERRY mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A shrub or small tree, such as the wax myrtle, whose waxy berries can be used to make candles.
Settlers boiled candleberry fruit to skim off fragrant wax for candles and soap. The aromatic bushes grow in coastal and swampy ground of eastern North America.
How CANDLEBERRY is used
Used in botany and local history; bayberry is a close synonym.
- Colonial families dipped candles from candleberry wax.
- The candleberry thicket smelled sweet after the rain.
- She planted a candleberry hedge near the shore.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CANDLEBERRY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CANDLEBERRY
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Common questions about CANDLEBERRY
- Is CANDLEBERRY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CANDLEBERRY, where it scores 22 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CANDLEBERRY worth?
- CANDLEBERRY is worth 19 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CANDLEBERRY mean?
- A shrub or small tree, such as the wax myrtle, whose waxy berries can be used to make candles.
- What letters can be added to CANDLEBERRY?
- No single letter can be added to CANDLEBERRY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of CANDLEBERRY:
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