CORPSE is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. CORPSE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CORPSE?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CORPSE is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CORPSE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CORPSE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CORPSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 129,346.
What does CORPSE mean in Scrabble?
noun
The dead body of a person.
A corpse is a body after death, most often a human one, and the word is common in crime stories, medicine and the law. It comes from the Latin corpus, and the spelling with a silent p was once the ordinary way to write what is now corps in the military sense. In the theatre, to corpse is a separate verb meaning to burst into laughter on stage and ruin a scene.
How CORPSE is used
Used for people; for animals, carcass is the usual word.
- The detective knelt beside the corpse.
- A corpse was found in the river at dawn.
- The painting shows a pale corpse on a stone slab.
- Nobody in the village had seen the corpse before.
- The old story tells of a corpse that rose from its grave.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CORPSE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CORPSE
The 6 tiles of CORPSE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CORPSE
3 longer words begin with CORPSE.
Shorter words from the letters in CORPSE
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Common questions about CORPSE
- Is CORPSE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CORPSE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CORPSE worth?
- CORPSE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CORPSE mean?
- The dead body of a person.
- What letters can be added to CORPSE?
- CORPSE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CORPSE:
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