PANTROPICAL is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. PANTROPICAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 22 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PANTROPICAL?
| 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 PANTROPICAL 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 PANTROPICAL
No single letter turns PANTROPICAL into another word.
How PANTROPICAL scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in PANTROPICAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 2 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so PANTROPICAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What does PANTROPICAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Occurring or spread across the tropical regions of the whole world.
Biologists call a species pantropical when it grows in the tropics of every continent, from the Amazon to Southeast Asia. Some weeds and seabirds are good examples. The term describes range, not climate preference alone.
How PANTROPICAL is used
Pantropical is used in biogeography and ecology, usually describing a species or its distribution.
- The pantropical weed has reached every warm coast.
- This is a pantropical species found on three continents.
- The pantropical distribution of the palm puzzled early botanists.
- Several pantropical fungi thrive in humid forests.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PANTROPICAL and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in PANTROPICAL
Showing 40 of 703. See all in the Word Finder
Common questions about PANTROPICAL
- Is PANTROPICAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PANTROPICAL, where it scores 22 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PANTROPICAL worth?
- PANTROPICAL is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PANTROPICAL mean?
- Occurring or spread across the tropical regions of the whole world.
- What letters can be added to PANTROPICAL?
- No single letter can be added to PANTROPICAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of PANTROPICAL:
Open PANTROPICAL in the Word Finder