ATONY is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. ATONY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ATONY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ATONY is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ATONY
No single letter turns ATONY into another word.
How ATONY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ATONY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What does ATONY mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
A lack of normal muscular tone or tension, especially in a body organ or tissue.
Atony occurs when a muscle or organ, such as the bladder or intestine, loses its usual firmness and fails to contract properly, which can interfere with normal function. Doctors may investigate atony as a symptom linked to nerve damage, certain medications, or prolonged inactivity. In a different, linguistic sense, the same word describes the absence of stress on a syllable within a word.
How ATONY is used
A clinical term used mainly in medicine, with a separate technical meaning in linguistics.
- The patient was diagnosed with atony of the bladder.
- Doctors linked the atony to nerve damage after surgery.
- Intestinal atony can slow digestion considerably.
- The therapist worked to restore tone and reduce the atony.
- Linguists used atony to describe the unstressed syllable.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ATONY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ATONY
The 5 tiles of ATONY in a different order — 1 found.
Words ending in ATONY
1 words end in ATONY. Useful as a back hook: play ATONY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in ATONY
Common questions about ATONY
- Is ATONY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ATONY, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ATONY worth?
- ATONY is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ATONY mean?
- A lack of normal muscular tone or tension, especially in a body organ or tissue.
- What letters can be added to ATONY?
- No single letter can be added to ATONY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ATONY:
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