EXCRESCENT is a valid Scrabble word — 21 points
Yes. EXCRESCENT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 21 points in Scrabble and 24 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept EXCRESCENT?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EXCRESCENT is to know. It scores 21 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EXCRESCENT
No single letter turns EXCRESCENT into another word.
How EXCRESCENT scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in EXCRESCENT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 3 | 12 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
| c | 2 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so EXCRESCENT has to be built on the board across turns.
What does EXCRESCENT mean in Scrabble?
adjective
formal
Growing out abnormally, or being an unnecessary extra addition.
Something excrescent sticks out like a wart or a needless extra. Linguists also use it for a sound inserted into a word without any historical reason, as the t in some pronunciations of "against".
How EXCRESCENT is used
Used in medicine, writing about style and in phonetics.
- The surgeon removed an excrescent growth from the bark of the tree.
- Critics found the final chapter excrescent and cut it.
- The excrescent consonant in the pronunciation puzzled the students.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EXCRESCENT and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with EXCRESCENT
2 longer words begin with EXCRESCENT.
Shorter words from the letters in EXCRESCENT
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Common questions about EXCRESCENT
- Is EXCRESCENT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts EXCRESCENT, where it scores 24 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is EXCRESCENT worth?
- EXCRESCENT is worth 21 points in Scrabble and 24 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EXCRESCENT mean?
- Growing out abnormally, or being an unnecessary extra addition.
- What letters can be added to EXCRESCENT?
- No single letter can be added to EXCRESCENT to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of EXCRESCENT:
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