RICKETTSIA is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. RICKETTSIA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RICKETTSIA?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RICKETTSIA is to know. It scores 16 from 10 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RICKETTSIA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RICKETTSIA scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in RICKETTSIA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so RICKETTSIA has to be built on the board across turns.
What does RICKETTSIA mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
A tiny bacterium that lives inside living cells and causes diseases such as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
A rickettsia is neither quite a virus nor an ordinary free-living germ, since it can multiply only inside host cells. Ticks, mites and lice carry it between animals and people, so rickettsia infections are tied to bites. The plural is rickettsiae.
How RICKETTSIA is used
A term from microbiology and medicine, used for the genus and for its members.
- The tick passed a rickettsia to the hiker.
- Every rickettsia needs a living cell to reproduce.
- Doctors suspected a rickettsia after the rash appeared.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RICKETTSIA and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of RICKETTSIA
The 10 tiles of RICKETTSIA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with RICKETTSIA
3 longer words begin with RICKETTSIA.
Shorter words from the letters in RICKETTSIA
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Common questions about RICKETTSIA
- Is RICKETTSIA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RICKETTSIA, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RICKETTSIA worth?
- RICKETTSIA is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RICKETTSIA mean?
- A tiny bacterium that lives inside living cells and causes diseases such as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- What letters can be added to RICKETTSIA?
- RICKETTSIA takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of RICKETTSIA:
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