ENDAMEBA is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. ENDAMEBA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ENDAMEBA?
| 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: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ENDAMEBA is to know. It scores 13 from 8 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ENDAMEBA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ENDAMEBA scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in ENDAMEBA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ENDAMEBA has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ENDAMEBA mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A single-celled amoeba of a genus whose members live as parasites in the gut of animals.
An endameba lives inside a host, often an insect such as a cockroach or termite. Biologists use the term for these gut parasites, which are related to the amoebas found in human disease.
How ENDAMEBA is used
Used in biology and parasitology; plural endamebas or endamebae.
- The termite carried an endameba in its gut.
- Under the microscope each endameba looked like a tiny blob.
- Researchers studied the endameba found in the insect.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ENDAMEBA and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ENDAMEBA
2 longer words begin with ENDAMEBA.
Shorter words from the letters in ENDAMEBA
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Common questions about ENDAMEBA
- Is ENDAMEBA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ENDAMEBA, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ENDAMEBA worth?
- ENDAMEBA is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ENDAMEBA mean?
- A single-celled amoeba of a genus whose members live as parasites in the gut of animals.
- What letters can be added to ENDAMEBA?
- ENDAMEBA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of ENDAMEBA:
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