ANTIDROMIC is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. ANTIDROMIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ANTIDROMIC?
| 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 ANTIDROMIC is to know. It scores 15 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANTIDROMIC
No single letter turns ANTIDROMIC into another word.
How ANTIDROMIC scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in ANTIDROMIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ANTIDROMIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ANTIDROMIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technicalmedical
Travelling or conducting in the direction opposite to the usual one, especially along a nerve fibre.
In neuroscience an impulse that runs back toward the cell body, instead of out along the axon, is called antidromic. Researchers sometimes trigger such signals deliberately to identify which cell a fibre belongs to.
How ANTIDROMIC is used
Antidromic is a specialist term of neurology and physiology.
- The electrode produced an antidromic impulse in the axon.
- An antidromic spike showed that the neuron projected to that region.
- Orthodromic and antidromic conduction travel in opposite directions.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANTIDROMIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ANTIDROMIC
1 longer words begin with ANTIDROMIC.
Shorter words from the letters in ANTIDROMIC
Showing 40 of 549. See all in the Word Finder
Common questions about ANTIDROMIC
- Is ANTIDROMIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANTIDROMIC, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANTIDROMIC worth?
- ANTIDROMIC is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANTIDROMIC mean?
- Travelling or conducting in the direction opposite to the usual one, especially along a nerve fibre.
- What letters can be added to ANTIDROMIC?
- No single letter can be added to ANTIDROMIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of ANTIDROMIC:
Open ANTIDROMIC in the Word Finder