CARPUS is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. CARPUS 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 CARPUS?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CARPUS is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CARPUS
No single letter turns CARPUS into another word.
How CARPUS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CARPUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 344,923.
What does CARPUS mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicaltechnical
The wrist, meaning the group of small bones that join the forearm to the hand.
Doctors use carpus for the whole bone cluster in the human wrist, and vets use it for the matching joint in the front leg of a horse, which people often call the knee. Its plural is carpi. It sits between the forearm bones and the long bones of the hand, which are called the metacarpus.
How CARPUS is used
Anatomical and veterinary term; mostly found in textbooks.
- The carpus of a horse is often called its knee.
- A break in the carpus can be slow to heal.
- The scan clearly showed the whole carpus.
- The surgeon described the injury to the carpus in detail.
- Eight bones form the human carpus.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CARPUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CARPUS
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Common questions about CARPUS
- Is CARPUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CARPUS, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CARPUS worth?
- CARPUS is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CARPUS mean?
- The wrist, meaning the group of small bones that join the forearm to the hand.
- What letters can be added to CARPUS?
- No single letter can be added to CARPUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CARPUS:
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