COTYLEDON is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. COTYLEDON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COTYLEDON?
| 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 COTYLEDON is to know. It scores 15 from 9 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COTYLEDON
Front hooks — 1
acotyledonBack hooks — 1
cotyledonsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How COTYLEDON scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in COTYLEDON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so COTYLEDON has to be built on the board across turns.
What does COTYLEDON mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
The first leaf or leaves of a plant embryo, found inside the seed and often the first to appear on a seedling.
A cotyledon stores or absorbs food that feeds the young plant until its true leaves develop. Botanists sort flowering plants by whether a seed holds one cotyledon or two. In beans you can see them as the two halves of the seed.
How COTYLEDON is used
A standard term in botany classes and seed science.
- The bean seed splits into two halves, each one a cotyledon.
- A seedling pushes its cotyledon above the soil before the true leaves.
- Grasses grow from seeds that hold a single cotyledon.
- The teacher asked us to label the cotyledon on the diagram.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COTYLEDON and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with COTYLEDON
5 longer words begin with COTYLEDON.
Shorter words from the letters in COTYLEDON
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Common questions about COTYLEDON
- Is COTYLEDON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COTYLEDON, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COTYLEDON worth?
- COTYLEDON is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COTYLEDON mean?
- The first leaf or leaves of a plant embryo, found inside the seed and often the first to appear on a seedling.
- What letters can be added to COTYLEDON?
- COTYLEDON takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of COTYLEDON:
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