CORMOUS is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. CORMOUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CORMOUS?
| 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 CORMOUS is to know. It scores 11 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CORMOUS
No single letter turns CORMOUS into another word.
How CORMOUS scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in CORMOUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,489 thousand.
What does CORMOUS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
botany
Having or producing corms, the thick underground stems of plants such as crocus.
Botanists call a plant cormous when it stores food in a solid swollen stem rather than in a layered bulb. Crocus, gladiolus and taro are cormous, and they survive winter underground.
How CORMOUS is used
Cormous is a botanical adjective.
- The crocus is a cormous plant that flowers early in spring.
- Gardeners lift cormous species before the first hard frost.
- A cormous root is solid, unlike the layers of an onion.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CORMOUS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CORMOUS
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Common questions about CORMOUS
- Is CORMOUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CORMOUS, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CORMOUS worth?
- CORMOUS is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CORMOUS mean?
- Having or producing corms, the thick underground stems of plants such as crocus.
- What letters can be added to CORMOUS?
- No single letter can be added to CORMOUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of CORMOUS:
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