SCLEROTIUM is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. SCLEROTIUM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SCLEROTIUM?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SCLEROTIUM is to know. It scores 14 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCLEROTIUM
No single letter turns SCLEROTIUM into another word.
How SCLEROTIUM scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in SCLEROTIUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SCLEROTIUM has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about SCLEROTIUM
- All 10 letters of SCLEROTIUM are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SCLEROTIUM mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A hard, dark mass of fungal threads that can lie dormant for a long time before growing again.
The sclerotium works as a survival pack for some fungi, letting them wait out cold or dry spells in the soil. Ergot, the fungus that grows on rye, forms its sclerotium in the shape of a dark grain.
How SCLEROTIUM is used
Technical term from mycology and plant disease studies.
- A black sclerotium replaced several grains in the rye ear.
- The fungus survived the winter as a sclerotium in the soil.
- Each sclerotium can sprout fruiting bodies in spring.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCLEROTIUM and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SCLEROTIUM
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Common questions about SCLEROTIUM
- Is SCLEROTIUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SCLEROTIUM, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SCLEROTIUM worth?
- SCLEROTIUM is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCLEROTIUM mean?
- A hard, dark mass of fungal threads that can lie dormant for a long time before growing again.
- What letters can be added to SCLEROTIUM?
- No single letter can be added to SCLEROTIUM to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of SCLEROTIUM:
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