FUCUS is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. FUCUS 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 FUCUS?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FUCUS is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FUCUS
No single letter turns FUCUS into another word.
How FUCUS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FUCUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 784,245.
What does FUCUS mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A genus of brown seaweed, commonly called rockweed or wrack, that grows attached to rocks along northern coastlines.
Fucus is the scientific name for a group of tough, olive-brown seaweeds that cling to rocks between the tide lines, their flattened fronds often tipped with small air bladders that keep them afloat when the sea covers them. Farmers once gathered fucus from the shore to spread on fields as fertiliser, and it still turns up in some seaweed-based skincare products today. The name also survives in an old, now rare sense meaning a cosmetic paint or rouge, since Roman writers borrowed the same Latin word for a red dye extracted from a related plant.
How FUCUS is used
Mainly a botanical and scientific term for the seaweed genus; the old sense meaning face paint is now rare and literary.
- Bladders of fucus popped underfoot along the shoreline.
- Farmers once hauled fucus up from the beach as fertiliser.
- The tide pool was thick with brown fucus.
- Her skin cream listed fucus extract among its ingredients.
- Roman writers used fucus for the red paint on a woman's cheeks.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FUCUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FUCUS
2 longer words begin with FUCUS.
Shorter words from the letters in FUCUS
Common questions about FUCUS
- Is FUCUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FUCUS, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FUCUS worth?
- FUCUS is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FUCUS mean?
- A genus of brown seaweed, commonly called rockweed or wrack, that grows attached to rocks along northern coastlines.
- What letters can be added to FUCUS?
- No single letter can be added to FUCUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FUCUS:
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