PUPARIUM is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. PUPARIUM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PUPARIUM?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PUPARIUM is to know. It scores 14 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PUPARIUM
No single letter turns PUPARIUM into another word.
How PUPARIUM scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in PUPARIUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 2 | 2 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so PUPARIUM has to be built on the board across turns.
What does PUPARIUM mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoologytechnical
The hardened outer skin of a fly larva, which forms a case around the developing pupa.
In flies such as the housefly the last larval skin does not fall away but stiffens into a brown barrel, and this shell is the puparium. The adult insect later pushes its way out through a cap at one end of it.
How PUPARIUM is used
Used in entomology; the plural is puparia.
- The empty puparium lay beside the rotting fruit.
- Entomologists identify the species by the shape of its puparium.
- A brown puparium split open and a fly crawled out.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PUPARIUM and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in PUPARIUM
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Common questions about PUPARIUM
- Is PUPARIUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PUPARIUM, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PUPARIUM worth?
- PUPARIUM is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PUPARIUM mean?
- The hardened outer skin of a fly larva, which forms a case around the developing pupa.
- What letters can be added to PUPARIUM?
- No single letter can be added to PUPARIUM to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of PUPARIUM:
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