CAUTERY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. CAUTERY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CAUTERY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CAUTERY is to know. It scores 12 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CAUTERY
No single letter turns CAUTERY into another word.
How CAUTERY scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in CAUTERY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 257,323.
What does CAUTERY mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
The burning of body tissue with a hot instrument, electric current or caustic chemical to stop bleeding or destroy diseased tissue.
Surgeons use cautery to seal small blood vessels during an operation and to remove warts or growths. Before modern methods, a red-hot iron was the usual tool. The word can name the procedure itself or the instrument used to perform it.
How CAUTERY is used
A medical term, used for both the act and the tool.
- The surgeon used cautery to stop the bleeding.
- Cautery removed the wart in a single short visit.
- Old accounts describe cautery with a heated iron as a harsh treatment.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CAUTERY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CAUTERY
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Common questions about CAUTERY
- Is CAUTERY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CAUTERY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CAUTERY worth?
- CAUTERY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CAUTERY mean?
- The burning of body tissue with a hot instrument, electric current or caustic chemical to stop bleeding or destroy diseased tissue.
- What letters can be added to CAUTERY?
- No single letter can be added to CAUTERY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of CAUTERY:
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