CANNIBAL is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. CANNIBAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CANNIBAL?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CANNIBAL is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CANNIBAL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cannibalsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CANNIBAL scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in CANNIBAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CANNIBAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What does CANNIBAL mean in Scrabble?
noun
A person who eats human flesh, or an animal that feeds on its own kind.
Stories of the cannibal feature in travel tales, legend and horror fiction. Biologists use the same word for creatures such as some spiders and fish that eat members of their own species.
How CANNIBAL is used
Used literally for people and animals, and in figurative business talk about products that eat into a company's own sales.
- The explorer feared the island was home to a cannibal tribe.
- The female spider is a cannibal after mating.
- Old sailors told tales of the cannibal feast.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CANNIBAL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CANNIBAL
15 longer words begin with CANNIBAL.
Shorter words from the letters in CANNIBAL
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Common questions about CANNIBAL
- Is CANNIBAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CANNIBAL, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CANNIBAL worth?
- CANNIBAL is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CANNIBAL mean?
- A person who eats human flesh, or an animal that feeds on its own kind.
- What letters can be added to CANNIBAL?
- CANNIBAL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of CANNIBAL:
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