EUKARYOTIC is a valid Scrabble word — 19 points
Yes. EUKARYOTIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 19 points in Scrabble and 20 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept EUKARYOTIC?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EUKARYOTIC is to know. It scores 19 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EUKARYOTIC
No single letter turns EUKARYOTIC into another word.
How EUKARYOTIC scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in EUKARYOTIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so EUKARYOTIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about EUKARYOTIC
- All 10 letters of EUKARYOTIC are different — nothing repeats.
- EUKARYOTIC contains every vowel — A, E, I, O and U.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does EUKARYOTIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Describing a cell that has a true nucleus enclosed in a membrane, or an organism made of such cells.
Eukaryotic cells also contain organelles such as mitochondria, which separates them from the simpler bacterial kind. Animals, plants, fungi and single-celled protists all have this cell type.
How EUKARYOTIC is used
Used in biology textbooks and research to contrast with prokaryotic.
- Yeast is a eukaryotic organism.
- A eukaryotic cell stores its DNA in a nucleus.
- The study compared eukaryotic and bacterial genes.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EUKARYOTIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
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Common questions about EUKARYOTIC
- Is EUKARYOTIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts EUKARYOTIC, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is EUKARYOTIC worth?
- EUKARYOTIC is worth 19 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EUKARYOTIC mean?
- Describing a cell that has a true nucleus enclosed in a membrane, or an organism made of such cells.
- What letters can be added to EUKARYOTIC?
- No single letter can be added to EUKARYOTIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of EUKARYOTIC:
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