PESTIFEROUS is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. PESTIFEROUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PESTIFEROUS?
| 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 PESTIFEROUS is to know. It scores 16 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PESTIFEROUS
No single letter turns PESTIFEROUS into another word.
How PESTIFEROUS scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in PESTIFEROUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so PESTIFEROUS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does PESTIFEROUS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Carrying disease or infection, or being a constant and irritating nuisance.
Historically a pestiferous swamp was a place thought to breed plague. Today the word is mostly used for annoying people and creatures, such as pestiferous mosquitoes.
How PESTIFEROUS is used
Used in a literary or humorous way of nuisances and harmful things.
- The pestiferous flies ruined the picnic.
- Travelers avoided the pestiferous marshes along the coast.
- He swatted at the pestiferous gnats around his lamp.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PESTIFEROUS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PESTIFEROUS
The 11 tiles of PESTIFEROUS in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with PESTIFEROUS
2 longer words begin with PESTIFEROUS.
Shorter words from the letters in PESTIFEROUS
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Common questions about PESTIFEROUS
- Is PESTIFEROUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PESTIFEROUS, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PESTIFEROUS worth?
- PESTIFEROUS is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PESTIFEROUS mean?
- Carrying disease or infection, or being a constant and irritating nuisance.
- What letters can be added to PESTIFEROUS?
- No single letter can be added to PESTIFEROUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of PESTIFEROUS:
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