DERMATOME is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. DERMATOME is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DERMATOME?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DERMATOME is to know. It scores 14 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DERMATOME
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
dermatomesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DERMATOME scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in DERMATOME, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| m | 2 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so DERMATOME has to be built on the board across turns.
What does DERMATOME mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
A surgical tool for cutting thin slices of skin, or an area of skin served by a single spinal nerve root.
Surgeons use a dermatome to take a thin layer of skin for grafting onto a burn. Neurologists use the same word for the strip of skin tied to one spinal nerve, which helps locate nerve damage by where the patient feels numbness.
How DERMATOME is used
Used in surgery and in neurology for the cutting instrument and the nerve-supplied skin area.
- The surgeon used a dermatome to harvest the graft.
- Shingles often follows the path of a single dermatome.
- Numbness along one dermatome pointed to a trapped nerve.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DERMATOME and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DERMATOME
1 longer words begin with DERMATOME.
Shorter words from the letters in DERMATOME
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Common questions about DERMATOME
- Is DERMATOME valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DERMATOME, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DERMATOME worth?
- DERMATOME is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DERMATOME mean?
- A surgical tool for cutting thin slices of skin, or an area of skin served by a single spinal nerve root.
- What letters can be added to DERMATOME?
- DERMATOME takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of DERMATOME:
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