The word peristome 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.)

  • peristome n. (Botany) One or two rings of tooth-like appendages surrounding the opening of the capsule of many mosses.
  • peristome n. (Zoology) The parts of or surrounding the mouths of numerous invertebrates.
  • peristome n. The lip, or edge of the aperture, of a spiral shell.

25 valid words from 3 definitions

APERTURE APPENDAGES BOTANY CAPSULE EDGE INVERTEBRATES LIKE LIP MANY MOSSES MOUTHS NUMEROUS OF ONE OPENING OR PARTS RINGS SHELL SPIRAL SURROUNDING THE TOOTH TWO ZOOLOGY

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

ER IS ME OM PE PER PERI PERIS ST TO TOM TOME

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

EM EMO IRE MO MOT MOTS RE REP SI SIR SIRE

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

TEMPORISE

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

PERISTOMES

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

+C PICOMETERS PICOMETRES
+D TEMPORISED
+H HEMITROPES
+I EPITOMISER
+N PREMOISTEN
+O OPISOMETER OPSIOMETER
+R SPIROMETER TEMPORISER
+S PERISTOMES TEMPORISES
+U PERIOSTEUM
+Z TEMPORIZES

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

-E IMPOSTER STOMPIER
-M POETISER POETRIES
-O EMPTIERS
-P TIRESOME
-R EPISTOME EPITOMES EPSOMITE
-T MOPERIES PROMISEE REIMPOSE

Scrabble scoring

  • 13 points.

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Categories without words

  • 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.)
  • 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.)

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