MAMMALIAN is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. MAMMALIAN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 20 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MAMMALIAN?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MAMMALIAN is to know. It scores 15 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MAMMALIAN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
mammaliansChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MAMMALIAN scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in MAMMALIAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 3 | 2 |
| a | 3 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
The Scrabble bag does not hold enough of these letters. MAMMALIAN needs 1 blank tile.
What does MAMMALIAN mean in Scrabble?
adjective
zoology
Belonging to or characteristic of mammals, the warm-blooded animals that feed their young with milk.
Biologists use mammalian for features shared by mammals, such as hair, live birth and milk glands. Mammalian cells are also the standard material for many laboratory experiments.
How MAMMALIAN is used
Used in biology and medicine before nouns such as cell, species, brain or evolution.
- Fur is a typical mammalian feature.
- The experiment used mammalian cells grown in a dish.
- Whales are mammalian despite living in the sea.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MAMMALIAN and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MAMMALIAN
1 longer words begin with MAMMALIAN.
Shorter words from the letters in MAMMALIAN
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Common questions about MAMMALIAN
- Is MAMMALIAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MAMMALIAN, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MAMMALIAN worth?
- MAMMALIAN is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MAMMALIAN mean?
- Belonging to or characteristic of mammals, the warm-blooded animals that feed their young with milk.
- What letters can be added to MAMMALIAN?
- MAMMALIAN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of MAMMALIAN:
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