AXOID is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. AXOID is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 13 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept AXOID?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AXOID is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AXOID
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
axoidsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AXOID scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in AXOID, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What does AXOID mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A curved surface traced out by the axis of rotation of a moving body, used in mechanics to describe the motion of a turning body.
Picture a spinning top wobbling as it slows down: the line it turns around at each instant sweeps out a cone-shaped axoid fixed in space, and a second axoid carried along by the top itself. Engineers describe the whole wobbling motion as one of these cones rolling without slipping over the other, which is far easier to picture than tracking every changing angle directly. The word combines axis with the Greek-derived ending -oid, meaning shaped like, and appears almost exclusively in writing on kinematics and rigid-body dynamics.
How AXOID is used
A specialised term from mechanics and kinematics, rarely met outside technical writing.
- The lecturer sketched the axoid traced by the spinning cone.
- A moving axoid rolls without slipping along the fixed axoid in this model.
- Students found the axoid construction the hardest part of the rotation problem.
- Each axoid describes how the axis of the top drifts as it wobbles.
- The paper compares the axoid of a gyroscope with that of a simple spinning disc.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AXOID and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with AXOID
1 longer words begin with AXOID.
Shorter words from the letters in AXOID
Common questions about AXOID
- Is AXOID valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and AXOID is not in it.
- How many points is AXOID worth?
- AXOID is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AXOID mean?
- A curved surface traced out by the axis of rotation of a moving body, used in mechanics to describe the motion of a turning body.
- What letters can be added to AXOID?
- AXOID takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of AXOID:
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