LEUCON is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. LEUCON 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 LEUCON?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LEUCON is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LEUCON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
leuconsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How LEUCON scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in LEUCON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 64,673.
What does LEUCON mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A sponge with the most complex body plan among sponges, in which water flows through a branching network of canals and small flagellated cavities rather than directly through simple pores.
Zoologists classify sponges into three basic body plans of rising complexity, called ascon, sycon and leucon, and a sponge earns the name leucon once its feeding system has folded itself into the busiest and most crowded arrangement of the three. Almost every sponge large enough to be noticed on a reef or seabed, rather than studied under a microscope, belongs to this most developed group, since the folding lets the animal grow far bigger and thicker than the simpler plans allow. The term comes from a Greek root for white, chosen long ago simply because early researchers were describing a plain, pale specimen rather than anything about its colour today.
How LEUCON is used
A specialist zoology term, used when classifying sponge body structure.
- Most large sponges seen on a reef have a leucon body structure.
- The textbook diagram compared a simple sponge with a complex leucon.
- Water winds through many small canals in a leucon before leaving the sponge.
- Biologists classified the specimen as a leucon based on its canal system.
- A leucon can filter far more water than a simpler sponge of the same size.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LEUCON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with LEUCON
1 longer words begin with LEUCON.
Shorter words from the letters in LEUCON
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Common questions about LEUCON
- Is LEUCON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LEUCON, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LEUCON worth?
- LEUCON is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LEUCON mean?
- A sponge with the most complex body plan among sponges, in which water flows through a branching network of canals and small flagellated cavities rather than directly through simple pores.
- What letters can be added to LEUCON?
- LEUCON takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of LEUCON:
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