CULMEN is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. CULMEN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CULMEN?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CULMEN is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CULMEN
No single letter turns CULMEN into another word.
How CULMEN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CULMEN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 258,692.
What does CULMEN mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
The upper ridge of the bill of a bird, running along the top from the forehead to the tip.
Ornithologists measure the culmen to compare birds, since its length varies widely between species. In older and literary use the word also meant the summit or highest point of something, taken from the Latin for top.
How CULMEN is used
A technical word of bird anatomy; the sense of summit is old and literary.
- The biologist measured the culmen of each finch.
- A long, curved culmen marks the curlew.
- The culmen of the toucan is bright with colour.
- Field guides give the culmen length for each species.
- He ran a ruler along the culmen and wrote down the number.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CULMEN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CULMEN
Common questions about CULMEN
- Is CULMEN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CULMEN, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CULMEN worth?
- CULMEN is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CULMEN mean?
- The upper ridge of the bill of a bird, running along the top from the forehead to the tip.
- What letters can be added to CULMEN?
- No single letter can be added to CULMEN to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CULMEN:
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