NOSTOC is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. NOSTOC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NOSTOC?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NOSTOC is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NOSTOC
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
nostocsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How NOSTOC scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in NOSTOC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 147,824.
What stands out about NOSTOC
- The same 6 tiles also spell 2 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 NOSTOC mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A genus of blue-green algae that forms soft, jelly-like colonies in damp soil, ponds, and puddles.
Colonies of nostoc swell after rain into rounded, gelatinous blobs that were once mistaken for fallen stars or meteor debris, earning the folk name star jelly in English. Unlike true algae, nostoc belongs to the cyanobacteria, a group of photosynthetic bacteria capable of pulling nitrogen directly from the air, which lets it thrive in poor soil where other plants struggle. The word is used as an ordinary noun for the organism itself, much as amoeba names a kind of single-celled creature rather than one specific individual.
How NOSTOC is used
A specialist term from botany and microbiology, occasionally mentioned in folklore discussions of star jelly.
- After the storm, patches of nostoc appeared on the gravel path.
- The biology class studied how nostoc fixes nitrogen from the air.
- Folklore once explained nostoc as the remains of fallen stars.
- Farmers sometimes notice nostoc growing on compacted, poorly drained soil.
- Under the microscope, the beaded filaments of nostoc were easy to identify.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NOSTOC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of NOSTOC
The 6 tiles of NOSTOC in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with NOSTOC
1 longer words begin with NOSTOC.
Shorter words from the letters in NOSTOC
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Common questions about NOSTOC
- Is NOSTOC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NOSTOC, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NOSTOC worth?
- NOSTOC is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NOSTOC mean?
- A genus of blue-green algae that forms soft, jelly-like colonies in damp soil, ponds, and puddles.
- What letters can be added to NOSTOC?
- NOSTOC takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of NOSTOC:
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