SUGARCANE is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. SUGARCANE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SUGARCANE?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SUGARCANE is to know. It scores 12 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SUGARCANE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
sugarcanesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SUGARCANE scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in SUGARCANE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SUGARCANE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does SUGARCANE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A tall tropical grass with thick jointed stalks, grown as the main source of table sugar.
Harvesters cut the stalks of sugarcane and crush them to squeeze out a sweet juice. That juice is boiled down into molasses and then refined into crystals, and what is left over can be burned as fuel.
How SUGARCANE is used
Written as one word or two; sugarcane refers to the plant, not the finished sugar.
- Fields of sugarcane stretched all the way to the coast.
- He bought a glass of fresh sugarcane juice from a street seller.
- The mill burns the leftover sugarcane stalks to power its machines.
- Brazil grows more sugarcane than any other country.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SUGARCANE and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SUGARCANE
1 longer words begin with SUGARCANE.
Shorter words from the letters in SUGARCANE
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Common questions about SUGARCANE
- Is SUGARCANE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SUGARCANE, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SUGARCANE worth?
- SUGARCANE is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SUGARCANE mean?
- A tall tropical grass with thick jointed stalks, grown as the main source of table sugar.
- What letters can be added to SUGARCANE?
- SUGARCANE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of SUGARCANE:
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