UNIVALVE is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. UNIVALVE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept UNIVALVE?
| 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: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UNIVALVE is to know. It scores 14 from 8 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UNIVALVE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How UNIVALVE scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in UNIVALVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| v | 2 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so UNIVALVE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does UNIVALVE mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A mollusc whose shell is made of a single piece, such as a snail or limpet.
A univalve is set against the bivalve, whose shell hinges in two halves like a clam's. Most univalves have a coiled shell and move on a muscular foot.
How UNIVALVE is used
Univalve appears in zoology and shell collecting when sorting shells by structure.
- The whelk is a univalve with a tightly spiralled shell.
- She sorted the beach finds into univalve and bivalve piles.
- A single univalve crept slowly across the rock pool.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UNIVALVE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with UNIVALVE
2 longer words begin with UNIVALVE.
Shorter words from the letters in UNIVALVE
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Common questions about UNIVALVE
- Is UNIVALVE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts UNIVALVE, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is UNIVALVE worth?
- UNIVALVE is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UNIVALVE mean?
- A mollusc whose shell is made of a single piece, such as a snail or limpet.
- What letters can be added to UNIVALVE?
- UNIVALVE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of UNIVALVE:
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