FILUM is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. FILUM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FILUM?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FILUM is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FILUM
No single letter turns FILUM into another word.
How FILUM scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FILUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does FILUM mean in Scrabble?
noun
technicalmedical
A slender, threadlike anatomical structure, such as the filum terminale of the spinal cord.
A filum is a fine strand of tissue, and anatomists use the term mainly in the phrase filum terminale, the delicate filament that anchors the lower end of the spinal cord to the coccyx. The word comes from Latin filum, meaning thread, and the same root gives English filament and file (a line of people). Outside anatomy the term rarely appears alone, so most readers meet filum only inside that one fixed phrase.
How FILUM is used
Technical; used almost exclusively within the medical phrase filum terminale rather than on its own.
- The surgeon located the filum terminale beneath the last lumbar vertebra.
- A tethered filum can pull on the spinal cord and cause pain.
- The textbook diagram labelled the filum in cross-section.
- Cutting the filum released the tension on the cord.
- Radiologists checked the thickness of the filum on the scan.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FILUM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FILUM
Common questions about FILUM
- Is FILUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FILUM, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FILUM worth?
- FILUM is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FILUM mean?
- A slender, threadlike anatomical structure, such as the filum terminale of the spinal cord.
- What letters can be added to FILUM?
- No single letter can be added to FILUM to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FILUM:
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