What COSTA Means
- noun: a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)
- noun: any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates)
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
COSTA is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 O1 S1 T1 A1.
Anagrams of COSTA (6)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In COSTA
39 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
4 letter words (18)
3 letter words (14)
2 letter words (7)
Longer Words Containing COSTA
COSTA appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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