TRIFURCATE is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. TRIFURCATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TRIFURCATE?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TRIFURCATE is to know. It scores 15 from 10 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TRIFURCATE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TRIFURCATE scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in TRIFURCATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 2 | 6 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so TRIFURCATE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does TRIFURCATE mean in Scrabble?
verb
formal
To divide or split into three branches or forks.
Where bifurcate means a split in two, trifurcate describes a three-way division, as in a river, a road or a nerve. It is also used as an adjective for something already split that way.
How TRIFURCATE is used
Trifurcate is found in geography, anatomy and botany, and occasionally in figurative talk about a choice with three paths.
- The path seems to trifurcate just beyond the old mill.
- Near its end the nerve will trifurcate into fine branches.
- Geologists watched the stream trifurcate as it crossed the flat plain.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TRIFURCATE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TRIFURCATE
2 longer words begin with TRIFURCATE.
Shorter words from the letters in TRIFURCATE
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Common questions about TRIFURCATE
- Is TRIFURCATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TRIFURCATE, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TRIFURCATE worth?
- TRIFURCATE is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TRIFURCATE mean?
- To divide or split into three branches or forks.
- What letters can be added to TRIFURCATE?
- TRIFURCATE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of TRIFURCATE:
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