INQUILINE is a valid Scrabble word — 18 points
Yes. INQUILINE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 22 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept INQUILINE?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful INQUILINE is to know. It scores 18 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for INQUILINE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
inquilinesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How INQUILINE scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in INQUILINE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| i | 3 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so INQUILINE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does INQUILINE mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
An animal that lives in the nest, burrow or other dwelling of a different species without harming its host.
An inquiline is a lodger of the animal world, such as a gall wasp laying eggs in plant growths made by another insect. Some beetles live as an inquiline inside ant nests and share the food stores. The relationship differs from parasitism because the host is usually left unharmed.
How INQUILINE is used
Inquiline is a specialist term of zoology and entomology.
- The beetle is an inquiline in the nest of a large ant colony.
- Biologists studied each inquiline sharing the gall.
- An inquiline may spend its whole life inside another species' home.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of INQUILINE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with INQUILINE
1 longer words begin with INQUILINE.
Shorter words from the letters in INQUILINE
Common questions about INQUILINE
- Is INQUILINE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts INQUILINE, where it scores 22 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is INQUILINE worth?
- INQUILINE is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words with Friends.
- What does INQUILINE mean?
- An animal that lives in the nest, burrow or other dwelling of a different species without harming its host.
- What letters can be added to INQUILINE?
- INQUILINE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of INQUILINE:
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