GASTRULATE is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. GASTRULATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GASTRULATE?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GASTRULATE is to know. It scores 11 from 10 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GASTRULATE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GASTRULATE scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in GASTRULATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so GASTRULATE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does GASTRULATE mean in Scrabble?
verb
technical
To undergo the stage of early embryonic development in which a hollow ball of cells folds inward to form distinct layers.
Biologists use gastrulate for a specific turning point in an embryo, after which the main tissue layers can be told apart. It describes what the embryo does, not what a researcher does to it. A blastula must come first before an embryo can gastrulate.
How GASTRULATE is used
Used in embryology and developmental biology when describing how an embryo reorganises its cells.
- In frogs the embryo begins to gastrulate a day after the cells first divide.
- Zebrafish embryos gastrulate quickly, which makes them popular for classroom observation.
- The students watched the sea urchin embryo gastrulate under the microscope.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GASTRULATE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of GASTRULATE
The 10 tiles of GASTRULATE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with GASTRULATE
2 longer words begin with GASTRULATE.
Shorter words from the letters in GASTRULATE
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Common questions about GASTRULATE
- Is GASTRULATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GASTRULATE, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GASTRULATE worth?
- GASTRULATE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GASTRULATE mean?
- To undergo the stage of early embryonic development in which a hollow ball of cells folds inward to form distinct layers.
- What letters can be added to GASTRULATE?
- GASTRULATE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of GASTRULATE:
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