ENTAMOEBA is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. ENTAMOEBA 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 ENTAMOEBA?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ENTAMOEBA is to know. It scores 13 from 9 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ENTAMOEBA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ENTAMOEBA scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in ENTAMOEBA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ENTAMOEBA has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ENTAMOEBA mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
A genus of single-celled parasites living in the intestines of vertebrates, including one species that causes amoebic dysentery.
Entamoeba is a name from parasitology and medicine. Most species live harmlessly in the gut, but one can invade tissue and cause serious illness. It is spelled in several ways, among them entameba, which is described separately.
How ENTAMOEBA is used
Medical and biological term, written with a capital letter as a genus name in scientific texts.
- A stool sample revealed Entamoeba, the parasite behind the patient's dysentery.
- Not every entamoeba found in the gut causes disease.
- The researcher studied how entamoeba cysts survive in contaminated water.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ENTAMOEBA and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ENTAMOEBA
2 longer words begin with ENTAMOEBA.
Shorter words from the letters in ENTAMOEBA
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Common questions about ENTAMOEBA
- Is ENTAMOEBA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ENTAMOEBA, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ENTAMOEBA worth?
- ENTAMOEBA is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ENTAMOEBA mean?
- A genus of single-celled parasites living in the intestines of vertebrates, including one species that causes amoebic dysentery.
- What letters can be added to ENTAMOEBA?
- ENTAMOEBA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of ENTAMOEBA:
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