APNEAL is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. APNEAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept APNEAL?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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 APNEAL is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for APNEAL
No single letter turns APNEAL into another word.
How APNEAL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in APNEAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 57,487.
What does APNEAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medicalrare
Relating to apnoea, a temporary stopping of breathing, especially during sleep.
Apneal describes anything connected to a pause in breathing rather than the pause itself, so a report might call an event apneal without using the noun apnoea at all. The word shows up mainly in clinical and physiological writing about sleep disorders and newborn breathing patterns. Several close spellings exist for the same idea, including apneic and apnoeal, and writers pick whichever matches the American or British spelling they are already using. Outside medicine the word is almost never needed.
How APNEAL is used
A rare clinical adjective, confined to medical and physiological writing.
- The monitor recorded an apneal episode lasting eleven seconds.
- Researchers studied apneal patterns in premature infants.
- The report used the apneal spelling favoured in that journal.
- An apneal pause this long would normally wake the sleeper.
- The nurse noted the apneal event on the infant's chart.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of APNEAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
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Common questions about APNEAL
- Is APNEAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts APNEAL, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is APNEAL worth?
- APNEAL is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does APNEAL mean?
- Relating to apnoea, a temporary stopping of breathing, especially during sleep.
- What letters can be added to APNEAL?
- No single letter can be added to APNEAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of APNEAL:
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