SELENIFEROUS is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. SELENIFEROUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SELENIFEROUS?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SELENIFEROUS is to know. It scores 15 from 12 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SELENIFEROUS
No single letter turns SELENIFEROUS into another word.
How SELENIFEROUS scores
Face value of the 12 tiles in SELENIFEROUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| e | 3 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SELENIFEROUS has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about SELENIFEROUS
- SELENIFEROUS 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 SELENIFEROUS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Holding or producing the chemical element selenium, as certain soils, ores and minerals do.
Seleniferous ground matters to farmers because plants growing in it can take up the element in harmful amounts. Geologists also use seleniferous as a plain label for a mineral deposit that carries traces of selenium.
How SELENIFEROUS is used
Found mainly in geology, mining and agricultural writing about soils and rock.
- The seleniferous soil of the valley made the pasture unsafe for grazing.
- They sampled a seleniferous seam of shale near the river.
- Seleniferous pyrites was listed among the minerals found at the old mine.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SELENIFEROUS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SELENIFEROUS
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Common questions about SELENIFEROUS
- Is SELENIFEROUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SELENIFEROUS, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SELENIFEROUS worth?
- SELENIFEROUS is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SELENIFEROUS mean?
- Holding or producing the chemical element selenium, as certain soils, ores and minerals do.
- What letters can be added to SELENIFEROUS?
- No single letter can be added to SELENIFEROUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 12 letters of SELENIFEROUS:
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