HEMAL is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. HEMAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HEMAL?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HEMAL is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HEMAL
No single letter turns HEMAL into another word.
How HEMAL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HEMAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does HEMAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
zoology
Relating to the blood or to the blood vessels, or positioned on the side of the body where the blood vessels and heart lie.
In vertebrate anatomy, structures are sometimes described as hemal when they sit on the ventral side of the spine, opposite the neural arches that protect the spinal cord, because the major blood vessels run along that side. The hemal arch of a fish or reptile vertebra is a bony loop that shields these vessels much as the neural arch shields the nerve cord above. The term lets anatomists distinguish blood-related structures from bone or nerve-related ones without confusion.
How HEMAL is used
Technical anatomical term, mainly used in descriptions of vertebrate skeletons and blood vessel position.
- The hemal arch protects the major blood vessels beneath the fish's spine.
- Textbooks describe the ventral side of the vertebra as the hemal side.
- Comparative anatomists mapped the hemal canal running through each vertebra.
- The hemal spine points downward, away from the neural spine above it.
- Fossil vertebrae still show traces of the original hemal arches.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HEMAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of HEMAL
The 5 tiles of HEMAL in a different order — 1 found.
Words ending in HEMAL
1 words end in HEMAL. Useful as a back hook: play HEMAL onto a word already on the board.
Words with HEMAL inside
2 words contain HEMAL in the middle. Words that start with HEMAL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HEMAL
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Common questions about HEMAL
- Is HEMAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HEMAL, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HEMAL worth?
- HEMAL is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HEMAL mean?
- Relating to the blood or to the blood vessels, or positioned on the side of the body where the blood vessels and heart lie.
- What letters can be added to HEMAL?
- No single letter can be added to HEMAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HEMAL:
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