VEDALIA is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. VEDALIA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept VEDALIA?
| 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: 54 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VEDALIA is to know. It scores 11 from 7 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VEDALIA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
vedaliasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How VEDALIA scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in VEDALIA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 128,662.
What does VEDALIA mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A small Australian ladybird beetle that feeds on cottony cushion scale insects.
The vedalia became famous in the 1880s, when it was shipped to California and rescued the citrus groves from a ruinous scale pest. It is held up as the classic success story of biological pest control.
How VEDALIA is used
The word vedalia appears in agricultural and entomological writing about natural pest control.
- Growers released the vedalia among the orange trees.
- A single vedalia can eat hundreds of scale insects.
- The vedalia saved the Californian citrus industry.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VEDALIA and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of VEDALIA
The 7 tiles of VEDALIA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with VEDALIA
1 longer words begin with VEDALIA.
Shorter words from the letters in VEDALIA
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Common questions about VEDALIA
- Is VEDALIA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts VEDALIA, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is VEDALIA worth?
- VEDALIA is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VEDALIA mean?
- A small Australian ladybird beetle that feeds on cottony cushion scale insects.
- What letters can be added to VEDALIA?
- VEDALIA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of VEDALIA:
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