ZOAEA is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. ZOAEA 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 14 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ZOAEA?
| 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: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ZOAEA is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ZOAEA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ZOAEA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ZOAEA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| z | 1 | 1 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What stands out about ZOAEA
- ZOAEA runs three vowels in a row, which almost no English word does.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ZOAEA mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoologytechnical
A variant spelling of zoea, the free-swimming larval stage of a crab or other decapod crustacean.
A zoaea hatches from the egg looking nothing like the adult crab it will become, with long spines and prominent eyes that help it drift and feed among the plankton. Older zoological texts used zoaea alongside the more common spelling zoea and the rarer zooea, all naming exactly the same larval stage. The spelling most likely arose from inconsistent transliteration of the original Greek root when the term was first adopted into English natural history. Modern marine biology has largely settled on zoea, so zoaea now turns up mainly in older or specialist sources.
How ZOAEA is used
A minor variant spelling, met occasionally in older zoological writing about crab and crustacean development; zoea is the standard modern form.
- The textbook still lists zoaea as an accepted spelling of the crab larva.
- A zoaea drifts near the surface long before it takes on any crab-like shape.
- Researchers found thousands of zoaea in the plankton net that morning.
- The older manual describes the zoaea stage in far more detail than modern guides.
- Each zoaea moults several times before reaching the next larval form.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ZOAEA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ZOAEA
2 longer words begin with ZOAEA.
Shorter words from the letters in ZOAEA
Common questions about ZOAEA
- Is ZOAEA valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ZOAEA is not in it.
- How many points is ZOAEA worth?
- ZOAEA is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ZOAEA mean?
- A variant spelling of zoea, the free-swimming larval stage of a crab or other decapod crustacean.
- What letters can be added to ZOAEA?
- ZOAEA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ZOAEA:
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