COUDE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. COUDE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COUDE?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COUDE is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COUDE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
coudesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How COUDE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in COUDE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 24,508.
What does COUDE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A telescope design in which mirrors bend the path of incoming light to a fixed focus point away from the moving parts of the instrument.
In a coude arrangement, one or more flat mirrors redirect starlight down through the telescope's mount into a separate, often underground, room where heavy instruments can be permanently mounted. This design lets astronomers use large, delicate equipment, such as spectrographs, without having to move it every time the telescope points somewhere new. The word comes from French, meaning bent at the elbow, describing the angled path the light follows.
How COUDE is used
Technical astronomical term, most often used attributively, as in coude focus or coude room.
- The observatory's coude room housed a large spectrograph.
- Light traveled through a series of mirrors to the coude focus.
- Astronomers preferred the coude setup for delicate, heavy instruments.
- The telescope was fitted with a coude system in the 1960s.
- A coude arrangement kept the spectrograph fixed in one place.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COUDE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of COUDE
The 5 tiles of COUDE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with COUDE
1 longer words begin with COUDE.
Shorter words from the letters in COUDE
Common questions about COUDE
- Is COUDE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COUDE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COUDE worth?
- COUDE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COUDE mean?
- A telescope design in which mirrors bend the path of incoming light to a fixed focus point away from the moving parts of the instrument.
- What letters can be added to COUDE?
- COUDE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of COUDE:
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