COPROPHAGY is a valid Scrabble word — 23 points
Yes. COPROPHAGY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 23 points in Scrabble and 25 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COPROPHAGY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COPROPHAGY is to know. It scores 23 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COPROPHAGY
No single letter turns COPROPHAGY into another word.
How COPROPHAGY scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in COPROPHAGY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| p | 2 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so COPROPHAGY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does COPROPHAGY mean in Scrabble?
noun
technicalzoology
The habit of eating dung or faeces.
Coprophagy is a normal behaviour in some animals, such as rabbits, which recover nutrients by re-eating certain droppings. In people the term appears in medical texts as a rare symptom, so coprophagy is a clinical or scientific word rather than an everyday one.
How COPROPHAGY is used
Coprophagy is found in biology and veterinary writing, and in medical descriptions of unusual behaviour.
- Rabbits practise coprophagy to get more goodness from their food.
- The vet explained that coprophagy in dogs can have several causes.
- Dung beetles are often mentioned in articles about coprophagy.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COPROPHAGY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in COPROPHAGY
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Common questions about COPROPHAGY
- Is COPROPHAGY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COPROPHAGY, where it scores 25 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COPROPHAGY worth?
- COPROPHAGY is worth 23 points in Scrabble and 25 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COPROPHAGY mean?
- The habit of eating dung or faeces.
- What letters can be added to COPROPHAGY?
- No single letter can be added to COPROPHAGY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of COPROPHAGY:
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