ANISOTROPY is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. ANISOTROPY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ANISOTROPY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANISOTROPY is to know. It scores 15 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANISOTROPY
No single letter turns ANISOTROPY into another word.
How ANISOTROPY scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in ANISOTROPY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ANISOTROPY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ANISOTROPY mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The property of having different measured values depending on the direction in which you measure.
Wood shows strong anisotropy, since it is far easier to split along the grain than across it. The word turns up in physics, materials science and geology, and its opposite is isotropy.
How ANISOTROPY is used
Anisotropy is a technical term used with crystals, fibres, rocks and radiation measurements.
- The anisotropy of the crystal makes light travel at different speeds along different axes.
- Engineers account for the anisotropy of rolled steel sheet.
- Seismologists study anisotropy in the rock beneath the ocean floor.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANISOTROPY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ANISOTROPY
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Common questions about ANISOTROPY
- Is ANISOTROPY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANISOTROPY, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANISOTROPY worth?
- ANISOTROPY is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANISOTROPY mean?
- The property of having different measured values depending on the direction in which you measure.
- What letters can be added to ANISOTROPY?
- No single letter can be added to ANISOTROPY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of ANISOTROPY:
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