FUCOSE is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. FUCOSE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FUCOSE?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FUCOSE is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FUCOSE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
fucosesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FUCOSE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in FUCOSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 194,019.
What does FUCOSE mean in Scrabble?
noun
chemistry
A simple sugar of the hexose type that occurs in seaweed and in many animal and plant cells.
Fucose gets its name from Fucus, the genus of brown seaweed in which it was first found. Biochemists meet it as a building block attached to larger molecules on the surface of cells, where it helps with recognition and signalling. It is unusual among common sugars because it lacks one oxygen atom compared with its close relative galactose.
How FUCOSE is used
Technical term of biochemistry and cell biology.
- The researchers measured how much fucose the cells carried.
- Fucose is released when the seaweed extract is broken down.
- A chain of sugars ended in a single fucose unit.
- Human milk contains complex sugars rich in fucose.
- The textbook drew the structure of fucose beside glucose.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FUCOSE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FUCOSE
1 longer words begin with FUCOSE.
Shorter words from the letters in FUCOSE
Common questions about FUCOSE
- Is FUCOSE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FUCOSE, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FUCOSE worth?
- FUCOSE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FUCOSE mean?
- A simple sugar of the hexose type that occurs in seaweed and in many animal and plant cells.
- What letters can be added to FUCOSE?
- FUCOSE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of FUCOSE:
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