Facula is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 62 anagrams from letters in facula (aacflu).
1700-10; Latin: little torch, equivalent to fac- (stem of fax) torch + -ula -ule
facula, fak′ū-la, n. a spot brighter than the rest of the surface, sometimes seen on the sun's disc:—pl.
He considers it indeed "highly probable that the preparatory sign of a new spot is always a small, bright patch of facula."
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