SPERMATHECA is a valid Scrabble word — 20 points
Yes. SPERMATHECA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 20 points in Scrabble and 22 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SPERMATHECA?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SPERMATHECA is to know. It scores 20 from 11 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPERMATHECA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SPERMATHECA scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in SPERMATHECA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SPERMATHECA has to be built on the board across turns.
What does SPERMATHECA mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoologytechnical
A small sac in the female reproductive tract of insects and other invertebrates in which sperm is kept after mating.
This is a storage organ rather than a place where fertilisation happens. Thanks to the spermatheca, a female can lay fertilised eggs long after she last mated.
How SPERMATHECA is used
Used in entomology and invertebrate biology when describing the anatomy of a female insect or similar animal; the spermatheca is rarely mentioned outside such texts.
- The queen bee keeps the sperm from her mating flights in her spermatheca for years.
- Under the microscope the dissected spermatheca looked like a tiny coiled bulb.
- Biologists counted the stored cells in the spermatheca to estimate how often the female had mated.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPERMATHECA and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SPERMATHECA
3 longer words begin with SPERMATHECA.
Shorter words from the letters in SPERMATHECA
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Common questions about SPERMATHECA
- Is SPERMATHECA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SPERMATHECA, where it scores 22 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SPERMATHECA worth?
- SPERMATHECA is worth 20 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPERMATHECA mean?
- A small sac in the female reproductive tract of insects and other invertebrates in which sperm is kept after mating.
- What letters can be added to SPERMATHECA?
- SPERMATHECA takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of SPERMATHECA:
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