SOMITAL is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. SOMITAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SOMITAL?
| 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: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SOMITAL is to know. It scores 9 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SOMITAL
No single letter turns SOMITAL into another word.
How SOMITAL scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in SOMITAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 128,662.
What does SOMITAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technicalzoology
Relating to a somite, one of the repeated body segments of an animal such as a worm or an embryo.
Biologists reach for somital when they describe how a body is built from a row of similar units. It is the adjective for the segment itself, so it turns up in anatomy and embryology rather than in everyday speech.
How SOMITAL is used
Somital appears almost only in zoology and developmental biology texts.
- The somital pattern is easy to see along the back of the young embryo.
- Researchers traced somital growth over several days.
- A somital boundary marks where one block of tissue ends and the next begins.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SOMITAL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SOMITAL
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Common questions about SOMITAL
- Is SOMITAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SOMITAL, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SOMITAL worth?
- SOMITAL is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SOMITAL mean?
- Relating to a somite, one of the repeated body segments of an animal such as a worm or an embryo.
- What letters can be added to SOMITAL?
- No single letter can be added to SOMITAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of SOMITAL:
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