SENEGA is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. SENEGA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SENEGA?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SENEGA is to know. It scores 7 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SENEGA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
senegasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SENEGA scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SENEGA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 27,873.
What stands out about SENEGA
- The same 6 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SENEGA mean in Scrabble?
noun
botanymedical
A North American milkwort plant, or its dried root, once widely used as a medicinal expectorant.
Senega grows as a bushy perennial herb across the central and eastern United States, and its root contains compounds that irritate the throat enough to loosen phlegm. Traditional healers and later pharmacists dried and ground the root of senega into remedies for coughs and chest complaints. The plant is closely related to one sometimes called snakeroot, and older medical texts treat the names as pointing to the same root. Modern cough treatments rarely rely on senega directly, but it remains a reference point in the history of herbal medicine.
How SENEGA is used
Appears mainly in botanical and historical medical writing about traditional remedies.
- The old pharmacy jar was labeled tincture of senega.
- Senega grows wild in dry, open woodland.
- The herbalist recommended senega root for a stubborn cough.
- Botanists classify senega among the milkwort family.
- Nineteenth-century doctors prescribed senega as an expectorant.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SENEGA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SENEGA
The 6 tiles of SENEGA in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with SENEGA
1 longer words begin with SENEGA.
Shorter words from the letters in SENEGA
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Common questions about SENEGA
- Is SENEGA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SENEGA, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SENEGA worth?
- SENEGA is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SENEGA mean?
- A North American milkwort plant, or its dried root, once widely used as a medicinal expectorant.
- What letters can be added to SENEGA?
- SENEGA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SENEGA:
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