CARPAL is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. CARPAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CARPAL?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CARPAL is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CARPAL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CARPAL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CARPAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 344,923.
What does CARPAL mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicaltechnical
Any one of the small bones that make up the wrist.
There are eight of these bones in the human wrist, arranged in two rows, and they allow the hand to bend and rotate smoothly. As an adjective the word describes things belonging to the wrist, as in carpal tunnel. It comes from the Greek word for wrist and is the same root as the bone group called the carpus.
How CARPAL is used
Anatomical term; the adjective is best known in carpal tunnel syndrome.
- A fall can crack a carpal in the wrist.
- The surgeon examined each carpal on the scan.
- She felt pain in the carpal tunnel after long hours of typing.
- The dog has a carpal joint on each foreleg.
- The scaphoid is the carpal most often broken.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CARPAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CARPAL
4 longer words begin with CARPAL.
Shorter words from the letters in CARPAL
Common questions about CARPAL
- Is CARPAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CARPAL, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CARPAL worth?
- CARPAL is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CARPAL mean?
- Any one of the small bones that make up the wrist.
- What letters can be added to CARPAL?
- CARPAL takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CARPAL:
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