CERCARIA is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. CERCARIA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CERCARIA?
| 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: 53 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CERCARIA is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 6.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CERCARIA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CERCARIA scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in CERCARIA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CERCARIA has to be built on the board across turns.
What does CERCARIA mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
The tadpole-shaped larval stage of a parasitic fluke that leaves its snail host.
A cercaria swims freely using its tail, seeking the next host or the final vertebrate host. Biologists who study schistosomiasis follow the cercaria closely, because this stage can penetrate human skin.
How CERCARIA is used
A specialist term in parasitology.
- Each cercaria leaves the snail and swims through the water.
- Under the microscope, a cercaria looked like a tiny tadpole.
- The plural of cercaria is cercariae.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CERCARIA and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CERCARIA
5 longer words begin with CERCARIA.
Shorter words from the letters in CERCARIA
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Common questions about CERCARIA
- Is CERCARIA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CERCARIA, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CERCARIA worth?
- CERCARIA is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CERCARIA mean?
- The tadpole-shaped larval stage of a parasitic fluke that leaves its snail host.
- What letters can be added to CERCARIA?
- CERCARIA takes 4 hooks: 0 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of CERCARIA:
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