OCTOPOD is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. OCTOPOD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OCTOPOD?
| 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: 52 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OCTOPOD is to know. It scores 12 from 7 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OCTOPOD
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
octopodsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OCTOPOD scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in OCTOPOD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 3 | 8 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,978 thousand.
What does OCTOPOD mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
An eight-armed sea mollusc such as an octopus.
Biologists use octopod as a group label for animals in the order Octopoda. Unlike squids, an octopod has no internal shell and no pair of long feeding tentacles.
How OCTOPOD is used
Octopod appears in biology texts as a technical term for an octopus or its close relatives.
- The aquarium keeps a rare deep-sea octopod in a dark tank.
- Every octopod has eight arms lined with suckers.
- The octopod squeezed through a gap no bigger than a coin.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OCTOPOD and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OCTOPOD
5 longer words begin with OCTOPOD.
Shorter words from the letters in OCTOPOD
Common questions about OCTOPOD
- Is OCTOPOD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OCTOPOD, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OCTOPOD worth?
- OCTOPOD is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OCTOPOD mean?
- An eight-armed sea mollusc such as an octopus.
- What letters can be added to OCTOPOD?
- OCTOPOD takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of OCTOPOD:
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