CAPUT is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. CAPUT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CAPUT?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CAPUT is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CAPUT
No single letter turns CAPUT into another word.
How CAPUT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CAPUT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does CAPUT mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
A head, or a head-shaped part of a bone or an organ.
Caput is Latin doing anatomical work: the rounded end of a bone, the top of a structure, the part a diagram labels first. It also survives in caput mortuum, once the useless residue left in a flask and later the name of a dark red pigment made from exactly that.
How CAPUT is used
Countable, and the plural is capita. Chiefly anatomical.
- The caput of the femur sits in the socket of the hip.
- A fracture through the caput heals badly.
- The diagram labels the caput and leaves the rest unnamed.
- Caput mortuum is a colour before it is anything else now.
- Anatomists write caput where anybody else writes head.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CAPUT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CAPUT
Common questions about CAPUT
- Is CAPUT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CAPUT, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CAPUT worth?
- CAPUT is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CAPUT mean?
- A head, or a head-shaped part of a bone or an organ.
- What letters can be added to CAPUT?
- No single letter can be added to CAPUT to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CAPUT:
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