SCROFULOUS is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. SCROFULOUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SCROFULOUS?
| 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: 25 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SCROFULOUS is to know. It scores 15 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCROFULOUS
No single letter turns SCROFULOUS into another word.
How SCROFULOUS scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in SCROFULOUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SCROFULOUS has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about SCROFULOUS
- SCROFULOUS 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 SCROFULOUS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medicalliterary
Suffering from scrofula, a tuberculosis infection of the neck glands, or having a sickly, run-down look.
Scrofulous was once a plain medical term, and older novels describe scrofulous children in crowded slums. Writers later stretched it to mean morally corrupt or decaying. Today it appears mostly in historical or deliberately vivid prose.
How SCROFULOUS is used
Scrofulous is a dated medical term that also appears figuratively for squalor or decay.
- The doctor treated a scrofulous child from the harbour district.
- Dickens wrote of scrofulous alleys and sickly faces.
- The critic called the regime scrofulous and rotten.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCROFULOUS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SCROFULOUS
2 longer words begin with SCROFULOUS.
Shorter words from the letters in SCROFULOUS
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Common questions about SCROFULOUS
- Is SCROFULOUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SCROFULOUS, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SCROFULOUS worth?
- SCROFULOUS is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCROFULOUS mean?
- Suffering from scrofula, a tuberculosis infection of the neck glands, or having a sickly, run-down look.
- What letters can be added to SCROFULOUS?
- No single letter can be added to SCROFULOUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of SCROFULOUS:
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