MEGALOPS is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. MEGALOPS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MEGALOPS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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 MEGALOPS is to know. It scores 13 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MEGALOPS
No single letter turns MEGALOPS into another word.
How MEGALOPS scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in MEGALOPS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so MEGALOPS has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about MEGALOPS
- All 8 letters of MEGALOPS are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does MEGALOPS mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
The larval stage of a crab, following the zoea stage, with large eyes and a body that begins to resemble the adult.
A crab passes through this free-swimming phase before settling on the sea floor. Biologists spot a megalops by its bulging eyes and by claws that are already formed. Megalops is also the name of a genus of fishes that includes the tarpon.
How MEGALOPS is used
Megalops is a marine biology term, used for the larval crab and, in capitals, for the fish genus.
- Each megalops drifts with the current before turning into a young crab.
- The plankton net caught a megalops with huge dark eyes.
- Researchers counted every megalops that settled on the reef.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MEGALOPS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MEGALOPS
1 longer words begin with MEGALOPS.
Shorter words from the letters in MEGALOPS
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Common questions about MEGALOPS
- Is MEGALOPS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MEGALOPS, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MEGALOPS worth?
- MEGALOPS is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MEGALOPS mean?
- The larval stage of a crab, following the zoea stage, with large eyes and a body that begins to resemble the adult.
- What letters can be added to MEGALOPS?
- No single letter can be added to MEGALOPS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of MEGALOPS:
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