CUESTA is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. CUESTA 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 CUESTA?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CUESTA is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CUESTA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cuestasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CUESTA scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CUESTA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 57,487.
What does CUESTA mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A long, low ridge of land with a gentle slope on one side and a much steeper slope, called a scarp, on the other.
A cuesta forms where layers of harder and softer rock tilt gently in one direction, so that erosion wears away the softer rock faster and leaves the harder layer standing as a ridge with two very different sides. Geographers borrowed the word directly from Spanish, where it simply means slope or hillside, and it now names this specific landform in English-language geology and geography. Cuestas are common across parts of the American Southwest and other regions with gently tilted sedimentary rock layers.
How CUESTA is used
A technical term from geology and physical geography, used mainly when describing landforms shaped by tilted rock layers.
- The hikers climbed the steep scarp side of the cuesta before crossing its gentle back slope.
- Geologists mapped a series of cuestas across the sedimentary basin.
- The textbook compared a cuesta with a similar but steeper landform called a hogback.
- Erosion slowly reshapes each cuesta over thousands of years.
- A long cuesta ran parallel to the river for several miles.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CUESTA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CUESTA
The 6 tiles of CUESTA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CUESTA
1 longer words begin with CUESTA.
Shorter words from the letters in CUESTA
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Common questions about CUESTA
- Is CUESTA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CUESTA, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CUESTA worth?
- CUESTA is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CUESTA mean?
- A long, low ridge of land with a gentle slope on one side and a much steeper slope, called a scarp, on the other.
- What letters can be added to CUESTA?
- CUESTA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CUESTA:
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