NEUROSPORA is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. NEUROSPORA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NEUROSPORA?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NEUROSPORA is to know. It scores 12 from 10 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NEUROSPORA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
neurosporasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How NEUROSPORA scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in NEUROSPORA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so NEUROSPORA has to be built on the board across turns.
What does NEUROSPORA mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A genus of fungi, one of them the orange bread mould, widely used as a model organism in genetics research.
Neurospora became famous in the twentieth century because its simple life cycle made inherited traits easy to follow. You will meet the word mostly in biology textbooks and laboratory writing.
How NEUROSPORA is used
Neurospora is a scientific term, typically found in genetics and biochemistry.
- The students grew neurospora on agar plates in the lab.
- Early gene research relied heavily on neurospora.
- A neurospora culture turned the dish orange within days.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NEUROSPORA and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with NEUROSPORA
1 longer words begin with NEUROSPORA.
Shorter words from the letters in NEUROSPORA
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Common questions about NEUROSPORA
- Is NEUROSPORA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NEUROSPORA, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NEUROSPORA worth?
- NEUROSPORA is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NEUROSPORA mean?
- A genus of fungi, one of them the orange bread mould, widely used as a model organism in genetics research.
- What letters can be added to NEUROSPORA?
- NEUROSPORA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of NEUROSPORA:
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