LUNULA is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. LUNULA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LUNULA?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LUNULA is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LUNULA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How LUNULA scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in LUNULA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 2 | 4 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 613,196.
What does LUNULA mean in Scrabble?
noun
The pale, crescent-shaped area at the base of a human fingernail, just above the cuticle.
The lunula is most visible on the thumbnail and takes its name from the Latin word for little moon, describing its crescent outline. It marks the visible portion of the nail matrix, the tissue that produces new nail growth, and its size varies naturally from finger to finger and from person to person. The same word is also used in archaeology for a crescent-shaped ornament of sheet metal worn as a necklace during the Bronze Age.
How LUNULA is used
A technical term from anatomy for the nail's pale crescent, occasionally borrowed in archaeology for a crescent-shaped ornament.
- The manicurist gently pushed back the cuticle to reveal the lunula.
- His thumbnail showed an unusually large lunula.
- The museum displayed a gold lunula found in an Irish bog.
- A pale lunula was visible at the base of each nail.
- Archaeologists dated the bronze lunula to the early second millennium BC.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LUNULA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with LUNULA
4 longer words begin with LUNULA.
Shorter words from the letters in LUNULA
Common questions about LUNULA
- Is LUNULA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LUNULA, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LUNULA worth?
- LUNULA is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LUNULA mean?
- The pale, crescent-shaped area at the base of a human fingernail, just above the cuticle.
- What letters can be added to LUNULA?
- LUNULA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of LUNULA:
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