SCYPHISTOMA is a valid Scrabble word — 23 points
Yes. SCYPHISTOMA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 23 points in Scrabble and 24 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SCYPHISTOMA?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SCYPHISTOMA is to know. It scores 23 from 11 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCYPHISTOMA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SCYPHISTOMA scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in SCYPHISTOMA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SCYPHISTOMA has to be built on the board across turns.
What does SCYPHISTOMA mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoologytechnical
The small attached polyp stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish, which multiplies by budding.
After a free-swimming larva settles on a surface, it grows into a scyphistoma that looks like a tiny anemone. Later it slices itself into stacked discs, and each one drifts off as a baby jellyfish.
How SCYPHISTOMA is used
Scyphistoma is a specialist marine biology term, seldom seen outside zoology texts.
- A scyphistoma clung to the side of the aquarium rock.
- The scyphistoma released a stack of tiny young jellyfish.
- Students observed the scyphistoma under a microscope.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCYPHISTOMA and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SCYPHISTOMA
2 longer words begin with SCYPHISTOMA.
Shorter words from the letters in SCYPHISTOMA
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Common questions about SCYPHISTOMA
- Is SCYPHISTOMA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SCYPHISTOMA, where it scores 24 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SCYPHISTOMA worth?
- SCYPHISTOMA is worth 23 points in Scrabble and 24 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCYPHISTOMA mean?
- The small attached polyp stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish, which multiplies by budding.
- What letters can be added to SCYPHISTOMA?
- SCYPHISTOMA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of SCYPHISTOMA:
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