CELLOBIOSE is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. CELLOBIOSE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CELLOBIOSE?
| 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 CELLOBIOSE is to know. It scores 14 from 10 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CELLOBIOSE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cellobiosesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CELLOBIOSE scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in CELLOBIOSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CELLOBIOSE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does CELLOBIOSE mean in Scrabble?
noun
chemistry
A mildly sweet sugar made of two linked glucose units, released when cellulose is partly broken down.
Chemists meet cellobiose as the repeating building block inside cellulose chains. Unlike ordinary table sugar, it is not something people usually eat, and it matters mostly in laboratory and enzyme work.
How CELLOBIOSE is used
The word cellobiose appears in biochemistry texts about how plant fibre is digested or processed.
- The enzyme splits long fibres into cellobiose before the sugar is broken down further.
- A sample of pure cellobiose was dissolved in water for the experiment.
- Fungi release enzymes that turn wood into cellobiose and then into glucose.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CELLOBIOSE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CELLOBIOSE
1 longer words begin with CELLOBIOSE.
Shorter words from the letters in CELLOBIOSE
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Common questions about CELLOBIOSE
- Is CELLOBIOSE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CELLOBIOSE, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CELLOBIOSE worth?
- CELLOBIOSE is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CELLOBIOSE mean?
- A mildly sweet sugar made of two linked glucose units, released when cellulose is partly broken down.
- What letters can be added to CELLOBIOSE?
- CELLOBIOSE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of CELLOBIOSE:
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