CIRCUMLUNAR is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. CIRCUMLUNAR is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 24 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CIRCUMLUNAR?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CIRCUMLUNAR is to know. It scores 17 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CIRCUMLUNAR
No single letter turns CIRCUMLUNAR into another word.
How CIRCUMLUNAR scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in CIRCUMLUNAR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CIRCUMLUNAR has to be built on the board across turns.
What does CIRCUMLUNAR mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Moving around the moon or situated in the space around it.
Circumlunar usually appears in space-flight talk about paths that loop around the moon. It differs from lunar, which simply means belonging to the moon.
How CIRCUMLUNAR is used
Used in astronomy and space travel, often of a circumlunar orbit or flight.
- The probe followed a circumlunar path before heading home.
- Engineers planned a circumlunar mission with a crew of three.
- Circumlunar space is crowded with debris from earlier missions.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CIRCUMLUNAR and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CIRCUMLUNAR
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Common questions about CIRCUMLUNAR
- Is CIRCUMLUNAR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CIRCUMLUNAR, where it scores 24 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CIRCUMLUNAR worth?
- CIRCUMLUNAR is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 24 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CIRCUMLUNAR mean?
- Moving around the moon or situated in the space around it.
- What letters can be added to CIRCUMLUNAR?
- No single letter can be added to CIRCUMLUNAR to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of CIRCUMLUNAR:
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