ECHIUROID is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. ECHIUROID is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ECHIUROID?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ECHIUROID is to know. It scores 15 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ECHIUROID
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
echiuroidsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ECHIUROID scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in ECHIUROID, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ECHIUROID has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ECHIUROID mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A soft-bodied marine worm with a broad, flattened proboscis, belonging to a small group of sea-floor animals.
An echiuroid lives in burrows or rock crevices and feeds by sweeping its long snout across the seabed. Biologists once treated these worms as their own phylum, so the word turns up in older zoology texts.
How ECHIUROID is used
Echiuroid is a technical term found in marine biology, not in everyday conversation.
- The diver photographed an echiuroid half hidden in its burrow.
- Each echiuroid extends a long proboscis to collect food from the mud.
- The museum jar held a pale echiuroid collected from deep water.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ECHIUROID and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ECHIUROID
1 longer words begin with ECHIUROID.
Shorter words from the letters in ECHIUROID
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Common questions about ECHIUROID
- Is ECHIUROID valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ECHIUROID, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ECHIUROID worth?
- ECHIUROID is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ECHIUROID mean?
- A soft-bodied marine worm with a broad, flattened proboscis, belonging to a small group of sea-floor animals.
- What letters can be added to ECHIUROID?
- ECHIUROID takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of ECHIUROID:
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