CHAETA is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. CHAETA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CHAETA?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHAETA is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHAETA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How CHAETA scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CHAETA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 114,974.
What does CHAETA mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
One of the stiff, hair-like bristles that stick out from the body of an earthworm or a related worm.
Chaetae are made of chitin and help a worm grip the soil or the sea floor as it moves. Earthworms have only a few per segment, while marine bristle worms carry tufts of them on fleshy paddles. The word chaeta comes from the Greek for hair or mane, and the plural is chaetae. A broader word for any bristle of this sort is seta, which is also used for insects.
How CHAETA is used
Technical; used in biology texts, mostly in the plural chaetae.
- Under the lens each chaeta looked like a tiny golden needle.
- A single chaeta pressed into the skin gives the worm its grip.
- The student counted every chaeta on the segment.
- Each chaeta grows from a small pit in the body wall.
- One broken chaeta was visible beside the intact ones.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHAETA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CHAETA
2 longer words begin with CHAETA.
Shorter words from the letters in CHAETA
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Common questions about CHAETA
- Is CHAETA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CHAETA, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CHAETA worth?
- CHAETA is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHAETA mean?
- One of the stiff, hair-like bristles that stick out from the body of an earthworm or a related worm.
- What letters can be added to CHAETA?
- CHAETA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CHAETA:
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