THECAL is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. THECAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept THECAL?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful THECAL is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for THECAL
No single letter turns THECAL into another word.
How THECAL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in THECAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 114,974.
What does THECAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Relating to a theca, the sheath or case that encloses an organ, a cell layer or a part of an animal or plant.
Anatomists and zoologists use thecal when a structure is a sheath or case of some kind. The spinal cord sits inside a thecal sac, and a coral polyp lives in a cup that anatomists likewise describe as thecal. The word comes from the Greek for a case or receptacle, which is also the root of library words like bibliotheca.
How THECAL is used
Technical; met in anatomy, medicine and zoology, almost never in everyday speech.
- The surgeon described the thecal sac around the spinal cord.
- A thecal layer surrounds each developing follicle in the ovary.
- Under the microscope the thecal cells looked darker than the rest.
- The coral grows inside a hard thecal cup.
- She read about thecal abscesses in the old medical textbook.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of THECAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of THECAL
The 6 tiles of THECAL in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in THECAL
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Common questions about THECAL
- Is THECAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts THECAL, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is THECAL worth?
- THECAL is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does THECAL mean?
- Relating to a theca, the sheath or case that encloses an organ, a cell layer or a part of an animal or plant.
- What letters can be added to THECAL?
- No single letter can be added to THECAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of THECAL:
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