CELANDINE is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. CELANDINE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CELANDINE?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CELANDINE is to know. It scores 12 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CELANDINE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
celandinesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CELANDINE scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in CELANDINE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CELANDINE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does CELANDINE mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
Either of two yellow-flowered wild plants, the greater celandine of the poppy family and the lesser celandine of the buttercup family.
The lesser celandine carpets woodland floors with shiny yellow stars in early spring, while the greater celandine has orange sap and taller stems. Wordsworth wrote a poem about the flower. Folk belief held that celandine bloomed when swallows arrived.
How CELANDINE is used
A wildflower name used in botany and nature writing.
- Celandine lit up the hedge bank in March.
- The poet admired the humble celandine.
- Orange sap oozed from the broken celandine stem.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CELANDINE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CELANDINE
The 9 tiles of CELANDINE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CELANDINE
1 longer words begin with CELANDINE.
Shorter words from the letters in CELANDINE
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Common questions about CELANDINE
- Is CELANDINE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CELANDINE, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CELANDINE worth?
- CELANDINE is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CELANDINE mean?
- Either of two yellow-flowered wild plants, the greater celandine of the poppy family and the lesser celandine of the buttercup family.
- What letters can be added to CELANDINE?
- CELANDINE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of CELANDINE:
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