CLEOME is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. CLEOME is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CLEOME?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CLEOME is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CLEOME
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cleomesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CLEOME scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CLEOME, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 141,105.
What does CLEOME mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A plant of a mostly tropical genus, grown for its showy clusters of flowers with long, spidery stamens.
Gardeners know cleome best as the spider flower, because its pink, white or purple blooms bristle with thread-like stamens and seed pods that curve outward. The plants are tall, quick to grow from seed and often smell strongly when touched. They are popular as a background planting in summer borders.
How CLEOME is used
A botanical name that has also become the everyday gardening name for the plant.
- A row of cleome stood taller than the fence by August.
- The cleome seeds scattered on their own and came up again each year.
- Bees crowded around the pale pink cleome blooms.
- She cut a handful of cleome for the table, then regretted the smell.
- In a bed of low herbs, one cleome towered over everything.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CLEOME and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CLEOME
1 longer words begin with CLEOME.
Shorter words from the letters in CLEOME
Common questions about CLEOME
- Is CLEOME valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CLEOME, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CLEOME worth?
- CLEOME is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CLEOME mean?
- A plant of a mostly tropical genus, grown for its showy clusters of flowers with long, spidery stamens.
- What letters can be added to CLEOME?
- CLEOME takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CLEOME:
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