CLOACA is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. CLOACA 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 CLOACA?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CLOACA is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CLOACA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CLOACA scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CLOACA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,035 thousand.
What does CLOACA mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
The single opening at the rear of a bird, reptile or amphibian through which waste and reproductive products leave the body.
In these animals the digestive, urinary and reproductive passages all end in one shared chamber, and the cloaca is that chamber together with its exit. Most mammals lost the arrangement, though egg-laying ones such as the platypus kept it. The word is Latin for a sewer, and in Roman history it also names the great drain of the city, the Cloaca Maxima.
How CLOACA is used
Mostly a zoological term; the older sense of a sewer survives in historical writing.
- A bird lays its egg through the cloaca.
- The vet checked the lizard's cloaca for signs of infection.
- Frogs release both eggs and waste through a single cloaca.
- The students labeled the cloaca on the diagram of the hen.
- Ancient visitors marveled at the vast cloaca beneath Rome.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CLOACA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CLOACA
4 longer words begin with CLOACA.
Shorter words from the letters in CLOACA
Common questions about CLOACA
- Is CLOACA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CLOACA, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CLOACA worth?
- CLOACA is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CLOACA mean?
- The single opening at the rear of a bird, reptile or amphibian through which waste and reproductive products leave the body.
- What letters can be added to CLOACA?
- CLOACA takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CLOACA:
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