OOCYST is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. OOCYST is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OOCYST?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OOCYST is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OOCYST
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
oocystsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OOCYST scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in OOCYST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 2 | 8 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 443,472.
What does OOCYST mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A thick-walled capsule that encloses the fertilised egg cell of certain single-celled parasites.
Parasites such as the ones behind malaria and toxoplasmosis form an oocyst as a stage in their life cycle, and in some species it is the tough form that survives outside the host. The word joins the Greek root for egg to the root for a sac or bladder. Laboratories count oocysts in water or stool samples to detect infection.
How OOCYST is used
Used in parasitology and public-health reports.
- Each oocyst releases many infective cells once it ruptures.
- The water test found a single oocyst in a litre sample.
- An oocyst can survive for months in damp soil.
- The mosquito carries a growing oocyst on the wall of its gut.
- Chlorine alone does not reliably kill an oocyst.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OOCYST and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OOCYST
1 longer words begin with OOCYST.
Shorter words from the letters in OOCYST
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Common questions about OOCYST
- Is OOCYST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OOCYST, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OOCYST worth?
- OOCYST is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OOCYST mean?
- A thick-walled capsule that encloses the fertilised egg cell of certain single-celled parasites.
- What letters can be added to OOCYST?
- OOCYST takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of OOCYST:
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