SPHAGNOUS is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. SPHAGNOUS 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 SPHAGNOUS?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SPHAGNOUS is to know. It scores 15 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPHAGNOUS
No single letter turns SPHAGNOUS into another word.
How SPHAGNOUS scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in SPHAGNOUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SPHAGNOUS has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about SPHAGNOUS
- SPHAGNOUS 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 SPHAGNOUS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
botanytechnical
Relating to, full of or made of sphagnum, the pale moss that forms bogs.
Sphagnous describes places and materials rich in bog moss, such as wet peatland. Naturalists use it when they want a precise adjective for the damp, spongy ground that this moss builds up over the centuries.
How SPHAGNOUS is used
Sphagnous is a specialist word in botany and ecology writing about bogs and peat.
- The sphagnous hollow held water all summer.
- They crossed a sphagnous marsh on wooden planks.
- Peat forms slowly in sphagnous ground.
- A sphagnous carpet covered the floor of the old bog.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPHAGNOUS and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SPHAGNOUS
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Common questions about SPHAGNOUS
- Is SPHAGNOUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SPHAGNOUS, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SPHAGNOUS worth?
- SPHAGNOUS is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPHAGNOUS mean?
- Relating to, full of or made of sphagnum, the pale moss that forms bogs.
- What letters can be added to SPHAGNOUS?
- No single letter can be added to SPHAGNOUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of SPHAGNOUS:
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