CARBONIUM is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. CARBONIUM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 20 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CARBONIUM?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CARBONIUM is to know. It scores 15 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CARBONIUM
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
carboniumsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CARBONIUM scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in CARBONIUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CARBONIUM has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about CARBONIUM
- All 9 letters of CARBONIUM are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CARBONIUM mean in Scrabble?
noun
chemistrytechnical
An older name for a carbocation: a short-lived organic ion with a positively charged carbon atom, the counterpart of a carbanion.
Textbooks once spoke of a carbonium in explaining how reactions pass through short-lived charged stages. Modern usage often prefers the word carbocation, but carbonium ion remains in older papers.
How CARBONIUM is used
Used in organic chemistry, chiefly in the phrase carbonium ion.
- The reaction proceeds through a carbonium intermediate.
- A tertiary carbonium is more stable than a primary one.
- Older textbooks describe each carbonium as a reactive fragment.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CARBONIUM and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CARBONIUM
1 longer words begin with CARBONIUM.
Shorter words from the letters in CARBONIUM
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Common questions about CARBONIUM
- Is CARBONIUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CARBONIUM, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CARBONIUM worth?
- CARBONIUM is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CARBONIUM mean?
- An older name for a carbocation: a short-lived organic ion with a positively charged carbon atom, the counterpart of a carbanion.
- What letters can be added to CARBONIUM?
- CARBONIUM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of CARBONIUM:
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