COTTONWEED is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. COTTONWEED is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COTTONWEED?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COTTONWEED is to know. It scores 16 from 10 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COTTONWEED
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cottonweedsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How COTTONWEED scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in COTTONWEED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so COTTONWEED has to be built on the board across turns.
What does COTTONWEED mean in Scrabble?
noun
A plant with silvery, felted or woolly foliage, especially one that grows on sandy ground or beaches.
Several unrelated low plants carry the name cottonweed, and what they share is a soft, downy look to their leaves and stems. Botanists tend to use it for species found in sandy or rocky soil, so the label points to a habitat as much as to one particular plant.
How COTTONWEED is used
Cottonweed turns up mostly in botanical and field-guide writing about sandy shores and dry slopes.
- The dunes were dotted with silvery cottonweed.
- She pressed a sprig of cottonweed between the pages of her notebook.
- A patch of cottonweed grew where the beach path met the grass.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COTTONWEED and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with COTTONWEED
1 longer words begin with COTTONWEED.
Shorter words from the letters in COTTONWEED
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Common questions about COTTONWEED
- Is COTTONWEED valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COTTONWEED, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COTTONWEED worth?
- COTTONWEED is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COTTONWEED mean?
- A plant with silvery, felted or woolly foliage, especially one that grows on sandy ground or beaches.
- What letters can be added to COTTONWEED?
- COTTONWEED takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of COTTONWEED:
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