ALLOTROPY is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. ALLOTROPY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ALLOTROPY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ALLOTROPY is to know. It scores 14 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ALLOTROPY
No single letter turns ALLOTROPY into another word.
How ALLOTROPY scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in ALLOTROPY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ALLOTROPY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ALLOTROPY mean in Scrabble?
noun
chemistry
The property of a chemical element to exist in two or more different physical forms in the same state, such as graphite and diamond.
Carbon is the famous case of allotropy, appearing as soft graphite, hard diamond and fullerenes. Oxygen shows it too, as the gases O2 and ozone.
How ALLOTROPY is used
Used in chemistry and materials science when one element takes several structural forms.
- Allotropy explains why pencil lead and a diamond are both pure carbon.
- The textbook chapter on allotropy compared white and red phosphorus.
- Sulfur displays allotropy, forming several crystal types.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ALLOTROPY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ALLOTROPY
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Common questions about ALLOTROPY
- Is ALLOTROPY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ALLOTROPY, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ALLOTROPY worth?
- ALLOTROPY is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ALLOTROPY mean?
- The property of a chemical element to exist in two or more different physical forms in the same state, such as graphite and diamond.
- What letters can be added to ALLOTROPY?
- No single letter can be added to ALLOTROPY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of ALLOTROPY:
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