SUCCEDANEUM is a valid Scrabble word — 18 points
Yes. SUCCEDANEUM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 24 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SUCCEDANEUM?
| 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 SUCCEDANEUM is to know. It scores 18 from 11 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SUCCEDANEUM
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
succedaneumsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SUCCEDANEUM scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in SUCCEDANEUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| c | 2 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SUCCEDANEUM has to be built on the board across turns.
What does SUCCEDANEUM mean in Scrabble?
noun
formalrare
A substitute, especially a medicine used in place of another.
Succedaneum comes from Latin and sounds learned, so it appears mostly in old medical or literary prose. Today a writer would normally say substitute, but succedaneum adds a scholarly tone.
How SUCCEDANEUM is used
Rare and formal; found in older medical texts and in deliberately learned writing.
- Quinine was long seen as a succedaneum for more costly remedies.
- He treated the cheap wine as a poor succedaneum for the real thing.
- The apothecary offered a succedaneum when the herb ran out.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SUCCEDANEUM and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SUCCEDANEUM
1 longer words begin with SUCCEDANEUM.
Shorter words from the letters in SUCCEDANEUM
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Common questions about SUCCEDANEUM
- Is SUCCEDANEUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SUCCEDANEUM, where it scores 24 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SUCCEDANEUM worth?
- SUCCEDANEUM is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 24 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SUCCEDANEUM mean?
- A substitute, especially a medicine used in place of another.
- What letters can be added to SUCCEDANEUM?
- SUCCEDANEUM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of SUCCEDANEUM:
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