FLORA is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. FLORA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FLORA?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FLORA is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FLORA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FLORA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FLORA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What does FLORA mean in Scrabble?
noun
The plant life of a particular region, period, or environment, or the community of microorganisms living in a specific habitat such as the body.
Botanists survey the flora of a rainforest or a mountain range to catalog every native plant species growing there, often publishing the results as a detailed regional flora. Doctors and biologists borrow the same word for the trillions of bacteria that live inside the human gut, calling this hidden ecosystem the intestinal flora because it functions like its own miniature plant community. The word traces back to an old name for a goddess of flowers and spring, which explains why flora pairs so naturally with plants rather than animals. Fauna is the matching term for animal life, and the two words are almost always mentioned together when describing an entire ecosystem.
How FLORA is used
Used both in botany for regional plant life and in medicine for the microorganisms living within a habitat or the body.
- The island supports a surprisingly varied flora.
- Antibiotics can disturb the natural flora of the gut.
- The guidebook lists the flora typical of alpine meadows.
- Researchers studied how the flora changed after the fire.
- The garden was planted with flora native to the region.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FLORA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FLORA
5 longer words begin with FLORA.
Words ending in FLORA
7 words end in FLORA. Useful as a back hook: play FLORA onto a word already on the board.
Words with FLORA inside
Showing 24 of 28 words that contain FLORA somewhere in the middle. Words that start with FLORA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in FLORA
Common questions about FLORA
- Is FLORA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FLORA, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FLORA worth?
- FLORA is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FLORA mean?
- The plant life of a particular region, period, or environment, or the community of microorganisms living in a specific habitat such as the body.
- What letters can be added to FLORA?
- FLORA takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FLORA:
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