ALLYL is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. ALLYL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ALLYL?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ALLYL is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ALLYL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
allylsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ALLYL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ALLYL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 3 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,046 thousand.
What does ALLYL mean in Scrabble?
noun
chemistry
The chemical group CH2=CH-CH2-, a common building block in organic compounds such as allyl alcohol and allyl chloride.
Allyl names a specific three-carbon arrangement with a double bond at one end, and chemists attach the term to a base compound to show that this group is present, as in allyl alcohol or allyl chloride. The group occurs naturally in the oils that give garlic and mustard their sharp smell, since compounds built from it are responsible for much of that pungency. In industry, allyl compounds are used to make plastics, resins and a range of synthetic chemicals. Because the term always refers to this one fixed arrangement of atoms, it functions almost like a chemical shorthand rather than an everyday word.
How ALLYL is used
Technical; used in chemistry to name compounds built around this three-carbon group.
- Allyl alcohol is used as a starting material in several industrial processes.
- The pungent smell of garlic comes partly from allyl compounds.
- Chemists attached an allyl group to the molecule to change its reactivity.
- Allyl chloride is an important intermediate in making certain plastics.
- The lab report referred to the compound simply as an allyl derivative.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ALLYL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ALLYL
2 longer words begin with ALLYL.
Shorter words from the letters in ALLYL
Common questions about ALLYL
- Is ALLYL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ALLYL, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ALLYL worth?
- ALLYL is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ALLYL mean?
- The chemical group CH2=CH-CH2-, a common building block in organic compounds such as allyl alcohol and allyl chloride.
- What letters can be added to ALLYL?
- ALLYL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ALLYL:
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