MUSCA is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. MUSCA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MUSCA?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MUSCA is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MUSCA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How MUSCA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MUSCA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What stands out about MUSCA
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does MUSCA mean in Scrabble?
noun
technicalzoology
A fly, especially one of the genus that includes the common housefly, used in zoological names and scientific description.
Musca is simply the Latin word for fly, and biologists preserved it as the genus name for houseflies and their close relatives, so the lower-case common noun musca turns up in older natural history writing and technical description of these insects. The same root also names the small floating specks some people see drifting across their vision, called muscae volitantes, literally flying flies. Its most familiar modern use is in the scientific name Musca domestica, the common housefly.
How MUSCA is used
Technical noun, chiefly encountered in zoological and older natural history texts rather than everyday speech.
- The old text classed the common housefly simply as a musca.
- Naturalists once grouped many small flies loosely under musca.
- The specimen jar was labelled with the Latin word musca.
- His notebook sketched a musca alongside other common insects.
- The lecture traced how musca became the root of the housefly's scientific name.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MUSCA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of MUSCA
The 5 tiles of MUSCA in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with MUSCA
24 longer words begin with MUSCA.
Shorter words from the letters in MUSCA
Common questions about MUSCA
- Is MUSCA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MUSCA, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MUSCA worth?
- MUSCA is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MUSCA mean?
- A fly, especially one of the genus that includes the common housefly, used in zoological names and scientific description.
- What letters can be added to MUSCA?
- MUSCA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MUSCA:
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