CARPOSPORE is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. CARPOSPORE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CARPOSPORE?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CARPOSPORE is to know. It scores 16 from 10 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CARPOSPORE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
carposporesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CARPOSPORE scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in CARPOSPORE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| p | 2 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CARPOSPORE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does CARPOSPORE mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A spore of red algae that cannot swim, produced after fertilisation.
A carpospore forms in the reproductive structure of a red alga and drifts away to grow into a new stage of the plant. Unlike many algal spores it has no flagella, so water currents carry it. The term belongs to detailed algal life cycles.
How CARPOSPORE is used
Technical botanical term, used in textbooks on seaweed and red algae.
- Each carpospore develops into a small filament.
- The red alga releases a carpospore into the water.
- A carpospore lacks flagella and cannot swim.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CARPOSPORE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CARPOSPORE
1 longer words begin with CARPOSPORE.
Shorter words from the letters in CARPOSPORE
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Common questions about CARPOSPORE
- Is CARPOSPORE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CARPOSPORE, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CARPOSPORE worth?
- CARPOSPORE is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CARPOSPORE mean?
- A spore of red algae that cannot swim, produced after fertilisation.
- What letters can be added to CARPOSPORE?
- CARPOSPORE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of CARPOSPORE:
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