CULVER is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. CULVER is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CULVER?
| 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 CULVER is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CULVER
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CULVER scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CULVER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 258,692.
What does CULVER mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicpoetic
An old English name for a dove or wood pigeon.
Culver comes from Old English and survives mainly in poetry, in place names and in surnames. It sounds gentle and rural, which is why poets favoured it over the plainer word pigeon. Anyone reading older verse or walking through a village called Culverton will have met it, often without realising it means a bird.
How CULVER is used
Archaic or poetic; appears in verse, local names and historical writing.
- A culver cooed softly from the old yew tree.
- The poet compared her voice to the call of a culver at dusk.
- Culver Lane was named for the doves that once nested there.
- In the dovecote a single culver sat on the beam.
- He spotted a culver among the beeches at the edge of the park.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CULVER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CULVER
12 longer words begin with CULVER.
Shorter words from the letters in CULVER
Common questions about CULVER
- Is CULVER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CULVER, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CULVER worth?
- CULVER is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CULVER mean?
- An old English name for a dove or wood pigeon.
- What letters can be added to CULVER?
- CULVER takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CULVER:
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