APHONY is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. APHONY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept APHONY?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful APHONY is to know. It scores 14 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for APHONY
No single letter turns APHONY into another word.
How APHONY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in APHONY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 344,923.
What does APHONY mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
The loss of the voice, so that a person cannot speak aloud.
Aphony is a medical word for a voice that has gone silent, whether from damage to the larynx, from illness, or from other causes. The person may still move the lips and whisper, but no proper sound comes out. It is a shorter variant of the more usual medical term, and it turns up mostly in clinical writing and word games.
How APHONY is used
Technical; used in medical writing rather than in ordinary conversation.
- The singer suffered a sudden aphony before the concert.
- Aphony after the infection lasted only a few days.
- The doctor noted aphony in her report on the patient.
- A whisper was all that remained of his voice during the aphony.
- Complete aphony forced her to write her answers on a pad.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of APHONY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in APHONY
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Common questions about APHONY
- Is APHONY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts APHONY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is APHONY worth?
- APHONY is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does APHONY mean?
- The loss of the voice, so that a person cannot speak aloud.
- What letters can be added to APHONY?
- No single letter can be added to APHONY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of APHONY:
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