The word cryptococcus 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.)

  • cryptococcus n. Any soil fungus of the genus Cryptococcus, some of which are pathogenic.
  • Cryptococcus prop.n. Principally soil-dwelling yeast fungi, but certain species cause cryptococcosis or meningitis in mammals…
  • Cryptococcus prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Eriococcidae – certain scale insects, soft scale, some of which…

30 valid words from 3 definitions

ANY ARE BUT CAUSE CERTAIN CRYPTOCOCCOSIS CRYPTOCOCCUS DWELLING FAMILY FUNGI FUNGUS GENUS IN INSECTS MAMMALS MENINGITIS OF OR PATHOGENIC PRINCIPALLY SCALE SOFT SOIL SOME SPECIES TAXONOMIC THE WHICH WITHIN YEAST

1 invalid word from 3 definitions

ERIOCOCCIDAE

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

COCCUS CRY CRYPT CRYPTO TO TOC TOCO US

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

COCO COT

Scrabble scoring

  • 19 points, jokers C & C.
  • 25 points, without game rules.

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Categories without words

  • No anagrams (Word found by changing the order of the letters.)
  • No cousins (Word found by changing only one letter.)
  • No lipograms (Word found when removing only one letter.)
  • No epentheses (Word found when adding only one letter.)
  • No suffixes (Word found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)
  • 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.)
  • No anagrams can be formed with an extra letter (New word formed with all the letters of the word and an extra letter.)
  • No anagrams can be formed by removing a letter (New word formed with all the letters of the word minus a letter.)

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