VITEX is valid in Collins, not in North America — 15 points
It depends on the list you play by. VITEX is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 15 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept VITEX?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VITEX is to know. It scores 15 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VITEX
No single letter turns VITEX into another word.
How VITEX scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in VITEX, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does VITEX mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
Any of a group of shrubs and small trees in the verbena family, also known as the chaste tree.
Vitex is the botanical name for a genus of aromatic shrubs and small trees grown for their spiky flower clusters and fragrant leaves. The best-known species is the chaste tree, whose berries have long been used in traditional herbal remedies. Gardeners and botanists use vitex both as the scientific name and as a common word for the plant itself.
How VITEX is used
A specialist botanical term, most often met in gardening and herbal literature rather than casual speech.
- The nursery sold a young vitex for the herb garden.
- A row of vitex bushes lined the old farmhouse path.
- The herbalist recommended a tincture made from vitex berries.
- Bees crowded around the purple flowers of the vitex.
- The gardener pruned the vitex back after flowering.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VITEX and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with VITEX
1 longer words begin with VITEX.
Shorter words from the letters in VITEX
Common questions about VITEX
- Is VITEX valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and VITEX is not in it.
- How many points is VITEX worth?
- VITEX is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VITEX mean?
- Any of a group of shrubs and small trees in the verbena family, also known as the chaste tree.
- What letters can be added to VITEX?
- No single letter can be added to VITEX to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of VITEX:
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