POECHORE is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. POECHORE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept POECHORE?
| 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: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful POECHORE is to know. It scores 15 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POECHORE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
poechoresChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How POECHORE scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in POECHORE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so POECHORE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does POECHORE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A dry or semiarid region, such as the open steppe.
The poechore is a specialist term from plant geography, where regions are grouped by moisture. A poechore usually supports grass and scrub rather than forest.
How POECHORE is used
Appears in older geography and ecology writing about dry grassland regions.
- The traveller crossed a wide poechore where only grass survived.
- Every poechore on the map was marked with a pale yellow tint.
- A poechore receives too little rain for dense woodland.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POECHORE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with POECHORE
1 longer words begin with POECHORE.
Shorter words from the letters in POECHORE
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Common questions about POECHORE
- Is POECHORE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POECHORE, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POECHORE worth?
- POECHORE is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POECHORE mean?
- A dry or semiarid region, such as the open steppe.
- What letters can be added to POECHORE?
- POECHORE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of POECHORE:
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