UREDINIUM is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. UREDINIUM 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 UREDINIUM?
| 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 UREDINIUM is to know. It scores 12 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UREDINIUM
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
urediniumsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How UREDINIUM scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in UREDINIUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 2 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so UREDINIUM has to be built on the board across turns.
What does UREDINIUM mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
The rust-coloured spore bed that a rust fungus raises on a leaf or stem in summer, from which repeating spores spread the infection.
Botanists look for the uredinium as the rusty orange dots on leaves that give rust diseases their name. The spores released from it spread the infection quickly through a crop during the growing season. Its plural is uredinia, and uredium is a rarer variant.
How UREDINIUM is used
Uredinium is a technical term used in plant pathology and mycology.
- Each uredinium on the wheat leaf released orange spores.
- Under the lens, the uredinium looked like a tiny blister.
- A single uredinium can produce thousands of spores.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UREDINIUM and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with UREDINIUM
1 longer words begin with UREDINIUM.
Shorter words from the letters in UREDINIUM
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Common questions about UREDINIUM
- Is UREDINIUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts UREDINIUM, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is UREDINIUM worth?
- UREDINIUM is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UREDINIUM mean?
- The rust-coloured spore bed that a rust fungus raises on a leaf or stem in summer, from which repeating spores spread the infection.
- What letters can be added to UREDINIUM?
- UREDINIUM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of UREDINIUM:
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