HYPOGEAL is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. HYPOGEAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HYPOGEAL?
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HYPOGEAL is to know. It scores 17 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HYPOGEAL
No single letter turns HYPOGEAL into another word.
How HYPOGEAL scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in HYPOGEAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so HYPOGEAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about HYPOGEAL
- All 8 letters of HYPOGEAL are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does HYPOGEAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Living, growing or happening beneath the surface of the ground.
In botany a hypogeal seedling keeps its first seed leaves buried in the soil while the shoot pushes up, as peas do. The word also describes underground habitats and, more loosely, anything subterranean.
How HYPOGEAL is used
Mostly seen in botany and biology, in contrast with epigeal growth above ground.
- Pea germination is hypogeal, so the seed leaves stay below the soil.
- The beetle lives a hypogeal life among the roots.
- Biologists studied the hypogeal stage of the seedling.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HYPOGEAL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in HYPOGEAL
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Common questions about HYPOGEAL
- Is HYPOGEAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HYPOGEAL, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HYPOGEAL worth?
- HYPOGEAL is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HYPOGEAL mean?
- Living, growing or happening beneath the surface of the ground.
- What letters can be added to HYPOGEAL?
- No single letter can be added to HYPOGEAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of HYPOGEAL:
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