CORE is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. CORE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CORE?
| 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: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CORE is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CORE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CORE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in CORE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,404.
What does CORE mean in Scrabble?
noun
The central or innermost part of something, especially the tough middle part of a fruit holding the seeds.
The core of an apple or pear is the tough central part holding the seeds, and the same word is used for the innermost layer of a planet, a nuclear reactor, or a computer memory. By extension, the core of an argument, a belief, or a problem is its most essential and unchanging part, the point everything else is built around.
How CORE is used
- She cut the apple in half and removed the core.
- Loyalty is at the core of everything the team believes in.
- Engineers drilled deep to bring up a core sample of the rock.
- The reactor's core must be cooled constantly to prevent overheating.
- His argument, at its core, was about fairness rather than money.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CORE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CORE
The 4 tiles of CORE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CORE
Showing 24 of 46 words that begin with CORE.
Words ending in CORE
Showing 24 of 30 words that end in CORE. Useful as a back hook: play CORE onto a word already on the board.
Words with CORE inside
Showing 24 of 62 words that contain CORE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with CORE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CORE
Common questions about CORE
- Is CORE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CORE, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CORE worth?
- CORE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CORE mean?
- The central or innermost part of something, especially the tough middle part of a fruit holding the seeds.
- What letters can be added to CORE?
- CORE takes 5 hooks: 1 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of CORE:
Open CORE in the Word Finder