COSECANT is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. COSECANT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COSECANT?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COSECANT is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COSECANT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cosecantsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How COSECANT scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in COSECANT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so COSECANT has to be built on the board across turns.
What does COSECANT mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A trigonometric function equal to the hypotenuse divided by the side opposite an acute angle.
The cosecant is the reciprocal of the sine, so it grows large when the sine is small. Students meet it alongside secant and cotangent in trigonometry courses.
How COSECANT is used
Used in mathematics; abbreviated csc or cosec.
- Compute the cosecant of thirty degrees.
- The cosecant is undefined where the sine equals zero.
- A calculator may lack a direct cosecant key.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COSECANT and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of COSECANT
The 8 tiles of COSECANT in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with COSECANT
1 longer words begin with COSECANT.
Shorter words from the letters in COSECANT
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Common questions about COSECANT
- Is COSECANT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COSECANT, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COSECANT worth?
- COSECANT is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COSECANT mean?
- A trigonometric function equal to the hypotenuse divided by the side opposite an acute angle.
- What letters can be added to COSECANT?
- COSECANT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of COSECANT:
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