AXION is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. AXION is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AXION?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AXION is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AXION
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
axionsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AXION scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in AXION, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,364.
What does AXION mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A hypothetical elementary particle proposed to explain why certain nuclear interactions do not violate charge-parity symmetry.
The axion was proposed by physicists in the late 1970s as a solution to what is called the strong CP problem, a puzzle about why the strong nuclear force behaves symmetrically when a simpler theory would allow it not to. If axions exist, they would be extremely light and interact only very weakly with ordinary matter, which is exactly the property that makes them a leading candidate for dark matter, the unseen mass that outweighs visible matter in the universe. Several experiments around the world use extremely sensitive magnets and detectors to search for a direct signal of an axion, though none has yet succeeded. The name playfully echoes other particle names such as proton and electron while nodding to a detergent brand, chosen because the particle was seen as cleaning up a problem in the theory.
How AXION is used
A specialist term from theoretical and experimental particle physics, rarely met outside science writing.
- Researchers built a detector to search for the axion.
- If the axion is ever found, it could explain dark matter.
- The theory predicts that an axion would be extremely light.
- Several laboratories are racing to detect the axion directly.
- The paper reviewed decades of axion search experiments.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AXION and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with AXION
1 longer words begin with AXION.
Shorter words from the letters in AXION
Common questions about AXION
- Is AXION valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AXION, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AXION worth?
- AXION is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AXION mean?
- A hypothetical elementary particle proposed to explain why certain nuclear interactions do not violate charge-parity symmetry.
- What letters can be added to AXION?
- AXION takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of AXION:
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