ALEXIN is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. ALEXIN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ALEXIN?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ALEXIN is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ALEXIN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ALEXIN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ALEXIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 51,100.
What does ALEXIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicalarchaic
A protein in blood serum that helps the body destroy bacteria, now usually called complement.
Alexin was the name given by early bacteriologists to a substance in fresh blood that kills germs, and it loses its power when the serum is warmed or left to stand. Later research showed that it is really a group of proteins, and the newer term complement has largely replaced the old name. The word alexin now turns up mostly in the history of immunology.
How ALEXIN is used
Old-fashioned in medicine; met in older scientific texts and in word lists.
- The early paper described how alexin in fresh serum destroyed the bacteria.
- Heating the blood sample to a moderate temperature spoils its alexin.
- Historians of immunology still mention alexin when they trace the idea of complement.
- The textbook of 1900 gave a whole chapter to alexin.
- An alexin was thought to be a single substance before the proteins were separated.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ALEXIN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ALEXIN
The 6 tiles of ALEXIN in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ALEXIN
4 longer words begin with ALEXIN.
Shorter words from the letters in ALEXIN
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Common questions about ALEXIN
- Is ALEXIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ALEXIN, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ALEXIN worth?
- ALEXIN is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ALEXIN mean?
- A protein in blood serum that helps the body destroy bacteria, now usually called complement.
- What letters can be added to ALEXIN?
- ALEXIN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ALEXIN:
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