NOTOCHORDAL is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. NOTOCHORDAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NOTOCHORDAL?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NOTOCHORDAL is to know. It scores 17 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NOTOCHORDAL
No single letter turns NOTOCHORDAL into another word.
How NOTOCHORDAL scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in NOTOCHORDAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 3 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so NOTOCHORDAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What does NOTOCHORDAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
zoologytechnical
Relating to or possessing the flexible supporting rod found in the embryos of backboned animals.
Biologists reach for notochordal when describing early body plans, where a stiff but bendy cord runs along the back before bone appears. In humans the leftovers of this structure survive between the spinal discs. The term belongs mostly to textbooks on embryology.
How NOTOCHORDAL is used
Notochordal appears in anatomy and developmental biology, often before nouns such as cells, tissue or remnants.
- Notochordal cells guide the early development of the spine.
- The embryo shows a clear notochordal structure at this stage.
- Some tumours arise from notochordal remnants near the skull base.
- Lancelets are notochordal animals that never develop a true backbone.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NOTOCHORDAL and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in NOTOCHORDAL
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Common questions about NOTOCHORDAL
- Is NOTOCHORDAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NOTOCHORDAL, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NOTOCHORDAL worth?
- NOTOCHORDAL is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NOTOCHORDAL mean?
- Relating to or possessing the flexible supporting rod found in the embryos of backboned animals.
- What letters can be added to NOTOCHORDAL?
- No single letter can be added to NOTOCHORDAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of NOTOCHORDAL:
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