HAUSTORIUM is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. HAUSTORIUM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HAUSTORIUM?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HAUSTORIUM is to know. It scores 15 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HAUSTORIUM
No single letter turns HAUSTORIUM into another word.
How HAUSTORIUM scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in HAUSTORIUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so HAUSTORIUM has to be built on the board across turns.
What does HAUSTORIUM mean in Scrabble?
noun
botanytechnical
A rootlike organ by which a parasitic plant or fungus absorbs nourishment from its host.
A haustorium pushes into host tissue and draws out water and nutrients, which is how dodder and many fungi survive without feeding themselves. Biologists treat it as the key tool of a parasitic lifestyle.
How HAUSTORIUM is used
Haustorium is a botanical and mycological term; the plural is haustoria.
- Each haustorium of the dodder penetrated the stem of the host.
- The fungus sends a haustorium into every leaf cell it attacks.
- Slides showed a haustorium wedged between the plant cells.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HAUSTORIUM and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in HAUSTORIUM
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Common questions about HAUSTORIUM
- Is HAUSTORIUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HAUSTORIUM, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HAUSTORIUM worth?
- HAUSTORIUM is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HAUSTORIUM mean?
- A rootlike organ by which a parasitic plant or fungus absorbs nourishment from its host.
- What letters can be added to HAUSTORIUM?
- No single letter can be added to HAUSTORIUM to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of HAUSTORIUM:
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