RUDIST is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. RUDIST is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RUDIST?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RUDIST is to know. It scores 7 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RUDIST
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
rudistsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RUDIST scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in RUDIST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 57,487.
What does RUDIST mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
An extinct, cone-shaped bivalve mollusk that built reef-like colonies during the Cretaceous period.
A rudist had one long, curved, cone-shaped shell fixed to the seafloor and a smaller lid-like shell on top, an arrangement so unlike an ordinary clam that early naturalists debated what kind of animal it even was. Rudists lived in dense colonies that formed underwater structures similar to coral reefs across shallow tropical seas. The group vanished at the end of the Cretaceous period in the same extinction event that ended the dinosaurs, leaving only fossils to show how common these mollusks once were.
How RUDIST is used
A technical term from paleontology, used when discussing Cretaceous marine fossils.
- The quarry wall was packed with the fossilized shells of an ancient rudist colony.
- A single rudist could grow into a tall, horn-shaped cone anchored to the rock.
- Paleontologists mapped the reef built almost entirely by rudist shells.
- The museum display compared a rudist to its distant modern clam relatives.
- No rudist survived past the end of the Cretaceous period.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RUDIST and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with RUDIST
3 longer words begin with RUDIST.
Shorter words from the letters in RUDIST
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Common questions about RUDIST
- Is RUDIST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RUDIST, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RUDIST worth?
- RUDIST is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RUDIST mean?
- An extinct, cone-shaped bivalve mollusk that built reef-like colonies during the Cretaceous period.
- What letters can be added to RUDIST?
- RUDIST takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of RUDIST:
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