MEROCRINE is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. MEROCRINE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MEROCRINE?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MEROCRINE is to know. It scores 13 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MEROCRINE
No single letter turns MEROCRINE into another word.
How MEROCRINE scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in MEROCRINE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so MEROCRINE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does MEROCRINE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medical
Describing a gland that releases its product without losing any of its own cell material.
Most sweat glands are merocrine, meaning the secretion leaves through the cell membrane and the cell stays intact. Biology courses contrast this type with apocrine and holocrine glands, where parts or all of the cell are lost.
How MEROCRINE is used
Used in anatomy and histology.
- Merocrine glands release sweat directly onto the skin.
- The textbook compared merocrine secretion with the holocrine kind.
- Salivary glands include a merocrine type.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MEROCRINE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in MEROCRINE
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Common questions about MEROCRINE
- Is MEROCRINE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MEROCRINE, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MEROCRINE worth?
- MEROCRINE is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MEROCRINE mean?
- Describing a gland that releases its product without losing any of its own cell material.
- What letters can be added to MEROCRINE?
- No single letter can be added to MEROCRINE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of MEROCRINE:
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