SUBPHYLUM is a valid Scrabble word — 21 points
Yes. SUBPHYLUM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 21 points in Scrabble and 25 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SUBPHYLUM?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SUBPHYLUM is to know. It scores 21 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 2.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SUBPHYLUM
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
subphylumsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SUBPHYLUM scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in SUBPHYLUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SUBPHYLUM has to be built on the board across turns.
What does SUBPHYLUM mean in Scrabble?
noun
technicalzoology
A taxonomic rank below a phylum and above a class, used to group related classes of organisms.
Biologists add a subphylum when a phylum is too large to divide cleanly into classes straight away. Vertebrates, for instance, form a subphylum within the chordates, so the rank is a handy step in the classification ladder.
How SUBPHYLUM is used
A technical term of biological classification; the plural is subphyla.
- Vertebrates are placed in a subphylum of the phylum Chordata.
- Each subphylum is divided into several classes.
- The textbook lists the main subphylum groups of the arthropods.
- A newly discovered subphylum would change how the tree of life is drawn.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SUBPHYLUM and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SUBPHYLUM
1 longer words begin with SUBPHYLUM.
Shorter words from the letters in SUBPHYLUM
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Common questions about SUBPHYLUM
- Is SUBPHYLUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SUBPHYLUM, where it scores 25 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SUBPHYLUM worth?
- SUBPHYLUM is worth 21 points in Scrabble and 25 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SUBPHYLUM mean?
- A taxonomic rank below a phylum and above a class, used to group related classes of organisms.
- What letters can be added to SUBPHYLUM?
- SUBPHYLUM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of SUBPHYLUM:
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