CHONDRULE is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. CHONDRULE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CHONDRULE?
| 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 CHONDRULE 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 CHONDRULE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
chondrulesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CHONDRULE scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in CHONDRULE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CHONDRULE has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about CHONDRULE
- All 9 letters of CHONDRULE are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CHONDRULE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A small spherical grain of mineral embedded in certain stony meteorites.
A chondrule formed when droplets of molten rock cooled quickly in space before they joined larger bodies. Meteorites rich in them are called chondrites, and their sizes are usually under a few millimetres.
How CHONDRULE is used
Used in meteoritics and planetary science when describing the structure of stony meteorites.
- Under the microscope each chondrule looked like a tiny glass bead.
- One chondrule in the sample was almost perfectly round.
- Researchers dated a chondrule to the birth of the solar system.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHONDRULE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CHONDRULE
1 longer words begin with CHONDRULE.
Shorter words from the letters in CHONDRULE
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Common questions about CHONDRULE
- Is CHONDRULE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CHONDRULE, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CHONDRULE worth?
- CHONDRULE is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHONDRULE mean?
- A small spherical grain of mineral embedded in certain stony meteorites.
- What letters can be added to CHONDRULE?
- CHONDRULE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of CHONDRULE:
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