OOPHYTIC is a valid Scrabble word — 18 points
Yes. OOPHYTIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OOPHYTIC?
| 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: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OOPHYTIC is to know. It scores 18 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OOPHYTIC
Front hooks — 1
zoophyticBack hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How OOPHYTIC scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in OOPHYTIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 2 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so OOPHYTIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does OOPHYTIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
botany
Relating to an oophyte, the stage of a plant that grows from a fertilised egg.
The term oophytic belongs to the old botanical vocabulary of plant life cycles, where one generation produces eggs and the next grows from them. Modern textbooks mostly say sporophyte or gametophyte, so oophytic is now met chiefly in older texts and word lists.
How OOPHYTIC is used
A technical botanical adjective, seen in older scientific writing about mosses and ferns.
- The author described the oophytic generation of the fern in a single paragraph.
- An oophytic stage follows fertilisation in these plants.
- The lecturer admitted that oophytic is rarely used today.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OOPHYTIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in OOPHYTIC
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Common questions about OOPHYTIC
- Is OOPHYTIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OOPHYTIC, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OOPHYTIC worth?
- OOPHYTIC is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OOPHYTIC mean?
- Relating to an oophyte, the stage of a plant that grows from a fertilised egg.
- What letters can be added to OOPHYTIC?
- OOPHYTIC takes 1 hook: 1 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of OOPHYTIC:
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