FOVEAL is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. FOVEAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FOVEAL?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FOVEAL is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FOVEAL
No single letter turns FOVEAL into another word.
How FOVEAL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in FOVEAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 86,231.
What does FOVEAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medical
Relating to the fovea, the small pit in the retina where eyesight is sharpest.
Eye doctors and vision scientists use foveal to describe the tiny central region we aim at whatever we want to see in detail, such as the letters we are reading. Foveal vision is crisp but covers only a narrow patch of the scene, while the surrounding peripheral vision is blurrier and more sensitive to motion. The word comes from the Latin fovea, meaning a small pit.
How FOVEAL is used
Technical; used in optometry, neuroscience and research on reading.
- Reading depends mostly on foveal vision.
- The scan showed damage to the foveal region of the retina.
- A foveal image is much sharper than one at the edge of sight.
- The study tracked foveal fixations during the test.
- Her foveal acuity was measured at the clinic.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FOVEAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FOVEAL
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Common questions about FOVEAL
- Is FOVEAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FOVEAL, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FOVEAL worth?
- FOVEAL is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FOVEAL mean?
- Relating to the fovea, the small pit in the retina where eyesight is sharpest.
- What letters can be added to FOVEAL?
- No single letter can be added to FOVEAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of FOVEAL:
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