The word acanthus is a valid scrabble word

3 short excerpts of WikWik.org (WikWik is an online database of words defined in the English, French, Spanish, Italian, and other Wiktionnaries.)

  • acanthus n. A member of the genus Acanthus of herbaceous prickly plants with toothed leaves, (family Acanthaceae…
  • acanthus n. (Architecture) An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of Acanthus spinosus, used in the capitals…
  • Acanthus prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Acanthaceae – prickly herbs that grow in the Mediterranean; the acanthuses.

28 valid words from 3 definitions

ACANTHUS ACANTHUSES AN ARCHITECTURE CAPITALS FAMILY FOLIAGE GENUS GROW HERBACEOUS HERBS IN LEAVES MEDITERRANEAN MEMBER OF OR ORNAMENT PLANTS PRICKLY RESEMBLING TAXONOMIC THAT THE TOOTHED USED WITH WITHIN

2 invalid words from 3 definitions

ACANTHACEAE SPINOSUS

9 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word.)

ACANTH AN ANT CAN CANT CANTHUS NTH THUS US

2 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word.)

NA UH

One cousin (New word found by changing only one letter.)

ACANTHAS

2 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

ACANTHS CANTHUS

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

ACANTHOUS

One suffix (New word found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

ACANTHUSES

2 anagrams plus one (New words formed with all the letters from the word plus a letter.)

+O ACANTHOUS
+R CANTHARUS

6 anagrams minus one (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

-A CANTHUS CHAUNTS STAUNCH
-H ASCAUNT
-T ANCHUSA
-U ACANTHS

Scrabble scoring

  • 13 points.

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Categories without words

  • No anagrams (Word found by changing the order of the letters.)
  • Not found in the middle (Word found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)
  • No prefixes (Word found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

Scrabble words — in black are valid world wide — in RED are not valid in North America — in GREEN are valid only in North America.

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