VACUA is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. VACUA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept VACUA?
| 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 VACUA is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VACUA
No single letter turns VACUA into another word.
How VACUA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in VACUA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does VACUA mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A plural of vacuum, used mainly in scientific and technical writing.
Vacua keeps the Latin-style plural of vacuum, alongside the everyday plural vacuums, and physics and chemistry writing tends to prefer it. Nineteenth-century accounts of electric discharges through glass tubes describe the high vacua the experimenters produced, a phrase that reads oddly with vacuums in its place.
How VACUA is used
Technical; a scientific paper is more likely to write vacua than everyday prose is.
- The physicists compared several high vacua produced in glass tubes.
- Vacua is the plural a chemistry paper prefers over vacuums.
- Two vacua of different pressure were tested side by side.
- Early experiments with vacua in glass tubes revealed strange luminous effects.
- A general reader says vacuums where a physicist writes vacua.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VACUA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with VACUA
6 longer words begin with VACUA.
Words ending in VACUA
1 words end in VACUA. Useful as a back hook: play VACUA onto a word already on the board.
Words with VACUA inside
12 words contain VACUA in the middle. Words that start with VACUA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in VACUA
Common questions about VACUA
- Is VACUA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts VACUA, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is VACUA worth?
- VACUA is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VACUA mean?
- A plural of vacuum, used mainly in scientific and technical writing.
- What letters can be added to VACUA?
- No single letter can be added to VACUA to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of VACUA:
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