LACUNA is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. LACUNA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LACUNA?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LACUNA is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LACUNA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How LACUNA scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in LACUNA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 172,461.
What does LACUNA mean in Scrabble?
noun
formalliterary
A gap or missing part, especially in a text, a body of knowledge, or an otherwise continuous structure.
Scholars speak of a lacuna in a manuscript when a page is torn, faded, or simply lost, leaving a hole in the text that editors must either leave blank or fill with a careful guess. The word extends easily beyond old books: a lacuna in the historical record, in a scientific theory, or in someone's memory is a gap where evidence should be but is not. In anatomy the same word names a tiny cavity within bone or tissue, so a lacuna can be a physical hollow as well as a figurative one.
How LACUNA is used
A formal, somewhat literary term, common in scholarship and editing to describe a missing portion of a text, argument, or record.
- A lacuna in the ancient manuscript left three lines completely unreadable.
- Historians noted a lacuna in the archive where an entire year of records had vanished.
- The theory contained a lacuna that no experiment had yet managed to fill.
- Editors marked the lacuna with brackets rather than guessing at the missing word.
- Under the microscope, a small lacuna appeared within the bone tissue.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LACUNA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of LACUNA
The 6 tiles of LACUNA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with LACUNA
8 longer words begin with LACUNA.
Shorter words from the letters in LACUNA
Common questions about LACUNA
- Is LACUNA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LACUNA, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LACUNA worth?
- LACUNA is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LACUNA mean?
- A gap or missing part, especially in a text, a body of knowledge, or an otherwise continuous structure.
- What letters can be added to LACUNA?
- LACUNA takes 4 hooks: 0 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of LACUNA:
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