ELAPINE is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. ELAPINE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ELAPINE?
| 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: 51 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ELAPINE is to know. It scores 9 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ELAPINE
No single letter turns ELAPINE into another word.
How ELAPINE scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in ELAPINE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 2 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 62,381.
What stands out about ELAPINE
- ELAPINE begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ELAPINE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
zoology
Relating to or resembling the snakes of the family that includes cobras and coral snakes.
Elapine appears almost only in herpetology, where snakes with small fixed fangs are grouped together. A reader outside that field is far more likely to meet the plain word cobra.
How ELAPINE is used
Elapine is a technical adjective used in descriptions of snake classification and venom.
- The elapine venom acts mainly on the nervous system.
- She studied the elapine snakes of northern Australia.
- Small fixed fangs are an elapine feature.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ELAPINE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ELAPINE
The 7 tiles of ELAPINE in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in ELAPINE
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Common questions about ELAPINE
- Is ELAPINE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ELAPINE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ELAPINE worth?
- ELAPINE is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ELAPINE mean?
- Relating to or resembling the snakes of the family that includes cobras and coral snakes.
- What letters can be added to ELAPINE?
- No single letter can be added to ELAPINE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of ELAPINE:
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