SCIRRHOUS is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. SCIRRHOUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SCIRRHOUS?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SCIRRHOUS is to know. It scores 14 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCIRRHOUS
No single letter turns SCIRRHOUS into another word.
How SCIRRHOUS scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in SCIRRHOUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SCIRRHOUS has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about SCIRRHOUS
- SCIRRHOUS begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SCIRRHOUS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medical
Of or like a scirrhus, a hard, slow-growing malignant tumour rich in fibrous tissue.
Pathologists describe a growth as scirrhous when it feels firm and knotted under the finger. The word is old, tied to the nineteenth-century language of tumours, and is still met in some medical descriptions.
How SCIRRHOUS is used
Dated medical term describing hard tumours.
- The surgeon noted a scirrhous mass in the tissue.
- A scirrhous tumour feels hard to the touch.
- Old textbooks describe scirrhous cancers in great detail.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCIRRHOUS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SCIRRHOUS
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Common questions about SCIRRHOUS
- Is SCIRRHOUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SCIRRHOUS, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SCIRRHOUS worth?
- SCIRRHOUS is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCIRRHOUS mean?
- Of or like a scirrhus, a hard, slow-growing malignant tumour rich in fibrous tissue.
- What letters can be added to SCIRRHOUS?
- No single letter can be added to SCIRRHOUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of SCIRRHOUS:
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