SPELAEAN is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. SPELAEAN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SPELAEAN?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SPELAEAN is to know. It scores 10 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPELAEAN
No single letter turns SPELAEAN into another word.
How SPELAEAN scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in SPELAEAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SPELAEAN has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about SPELAEAN
- SPELAEAN runs three vowels in a row, which almost no English word does.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SPELAEAN mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Of, relating to, or living in caves.
Cave explorers and biologists call a bat, a pale fish or a prehistoric painting spelaean when it belongs to the dark underground world. The word comes from the Greek for cave.
How SPELAEAN is used
Spelaean is a formal word in cave science; spelean is the shorter spelling.
- The spelaean fauna includes blind beetles and pale salamanders.
- The museum has a gallery of spelaean art.
- Her thesis covers spelaean ecosystems in the mountains.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPELAEAN and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SPELAEAN
The 8 tiles of SPELAEAN in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in SPELAEAN
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Common questions about SPELAEAN
- Is SPELAEAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SPELAEAN, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SPELAEAN worth?
- SPELAEAN is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPELAEAN mean?
- Of, relating to, or living in caves.
- What letters can be added to SPELAEAN?
- No single letter can be added to SPELAEAN to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of SPELAEAN:
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