CUPPER is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. CUPPER is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CUPPER?
| 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 CUPPER is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CUPPER
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CUPPER scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CUPPER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| p | 2 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,070 thousand.
What does CUPPER mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A person who treats patients by cupping, drawing blood to the skin with heated glass cups.
In the days before modern medicine, a cupper was often a barber-surgeon who applied small cups to the skin to draw out blood or to raise a blister. The trade survives today in some traditional healing practices, which use the name for a trained practitioner. The word can also mean a cupbearer, one who serves drink at a table, though this sense is old.
How CUPPER is used
Mostly historical or tied to traditional medicine; the cupbearer sense is archaic.
- The cupper warmed the glass and pressed it against his back.
- A skilled cupper worked in the market town.
- The cupper kept a case of small glass cups and a lancet.
- Patients waited on the bench for the cupper to arrive.
- She trained as a cupper in the traditional way.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CUPPER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CUPPER
1 longer words begin with CUPPER.
Shorter words from the letters in CUPPER
Common questions about CUPPER
- Is CUPPER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CUPPER, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CUPPER worth?
- CUPPER is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CUPPER mean?
- A person who treats patients by cupping, drawing blood to the skin with heated glass cups.
- What letters can be added to CUPPER?
- CUPPER takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CUPPER:
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