LICHEN is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. LICHEN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LICHEN?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LICHEN is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LICHEN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
lichensChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How LICHEN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in LICHEN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 114,974.
What does LICHEN mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A slow-growing organism made of a fungus and an alga living together, forming crusty, leafy or branching patches on rock, bark and walls.
A lichen is not a single plant but a partnership: the fungus gives shelter and structure while the alga makes food from sunlight. Because lichens take their moisture from the air, they are sensitive to pollution and are often used to gauge how clean the air in a region is. The word is also used in medicine for a group of skin conditions that produce hard, clustered spots, and it can be a verb meaning to cover a surface with such growth.
How LICHEN is used
Most often met in nature writing and biology, as in a lichen on a gravestone or reindeer lichen in the far north.
- A pale green lichen had spread across the north face of the old wall.
- Reindeer feed on lichen through the long Arctic winter.
- The botanist scraped a sample of lichen from the oak bark.
- Where the air is cleaner, every branch is hung with lichen.
- The gravestone was so covered in lichen that the date could not be read.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LICHEN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with LICHEN
17 longer words begin with LICHEN.
Shorter words from the letters in LICHEN
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Common questions about LICHEN
- Is LICHEN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LICHEN, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LICHEN worth?
- LICHEN is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LICHEN mean?
- A slow-growing organism made of a fungus and an alga living together, forming crusty, leafy or branching patches on rock, bark and walls.
- What letters can be added to LICHEN?
- LICHEN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of LICHEN:
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