FECULA is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. FECULA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FECULA?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FECULA is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FECULA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FECULA scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in FECULA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 172,461.
What does FECULA mean in Scrabble?
noun
technicalarchaic
A fine starchy flour obtained from plants, especially from potatoes, by washing and settling.
The word comes from Latin faecula, a diminutive of the word for dregs, because the powder was what sank to the bottom of the washing water. Older chemistry and cookery books use fecula for any such settled plant meal, including arrowroot and potato starch. The same word also served for muddy sediment in general, and for the green pigment of leaves.
How FECULA is used
Technical and old-fashioned; found in nineteenth-century manuals rather than in modern kitchens.
- The cook thickened the sauce with a spoonful of potato fecula.
- Fecula settled at the bottom of the vat after the grated roots were washed.
- An old pharmacy manual lists fecula among the plain starches.
- She rinsed the pulp twice to collect more fecula.
- The word fecula once covered both plant starch and the sediment of a pond.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FECULA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FECULA
2 longer words begin with FECULA.
Shorter words from the letters in FECULA
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Common questions about FECULA
- Is FECULA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FECULA, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FECULA worth?
- FECULA is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FECULA mean?
- A fine starchy flour obtained from plants, especially from potatoes, by washing and settling.
- What letters can be added to FECULA?
- FECULA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of FECULA:
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