EUCARYOTE is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. EUCARYOTE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept EUCARYOTE?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EUCARYOTE 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 EUCARYOTE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
eucaryotesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How EUCARYOTE scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in EUCARYOTE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 2 | 12 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so EUCARYOTE has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about EUCARYOTE
- EUCARYOTE 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 EUCARYOTE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A living thing whose cells keep their genetic material inside a distinct nucleus.
Animals, plants, fungi and many single-celled organisms are all eucaryote life. Bacteria are the main group left out, since their cells have no enclosed nucleus. The spelling with c is an older variant of eukaryote.
How EUCARYOTE is used
Eucaryote is a biology term, found in textbooks that sort life by cell structure.
- Yeast is a tiny eucaryote even though it has only one cell.
- Every eucaryote stores its DNA inside a nucleus.
- The textbook contrasts a bacterium with a eucaryote cell.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EUCARYOTE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with EUCARYOTE
1 longer words begin with EUCARYOTE.
Shorter words from the letters in EUCARYOTE
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Common questions about EUCARYOTE
- Is EUCARYOTE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts EUCARYOTE, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is EUCARYOTE worth?
- EUCARYOTE is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EUCARYOTE mean?
- A living thing whose cells keep their genetic material inside a distinct nucleus.
- What letters can be added to EUCARYOTE?
- EUCARYOTE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of EUCARYOTE:
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