CORONA is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. CORONA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CORONA?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CORONA is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CORONA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CORONA scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CORONA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,700.
What does CORONA mean in Scrabble?
noun
A ring or halo of light seen around the sun or moon, most famously the glowing outer atmosphere visible around the sun during a total eclipse.
The sun's corona is a faint, pearly halo of superheated gas that becomes visible to the naked eye only when the moon blocks the sun's much brighter disk during a total eclipse. A similar, smaller corona can also appear as a colored ring around the sun or moon when light passes through thin clouds or ice crystals. Beyond astronomy, corona describes any crown-shaped structure, such as the cup at the center of a daffodil or a ring-shaped chandelier hung in a church, and physicists borrow the word for the faint glow around a wire carrying very high voltage. The Latin word corona originally simply meant crown, which explains why so many unrelated fields reuse it for anything ring- or crown-shaped.
How CORONA is used
Countable noun, used in astronomy, botany, physics, and general description of ring-shaped halos.
- Photographers waited years to capture the sun's corona during totality.
- A pale corona ringed the moon through the thin clouds.
- The daffodil's corona formed a bright trumpet at its center.
- Engineers noticed a faint corona around the high-voltage cable.
- The eclipse revealed a corona stretching far beyond the sun's edge.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CORONA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CORONA
The 6 tiles of CORONA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CORONA
19 longer words begin with CORONA.
Shorter words from the letters in CORONA
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Common questions about CORONA
- Is CORONA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CORONA, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CORONA worth?
- CORONA is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CORONA mean?
- A ring or halo of light seen around the sun or moon, most famously the glowing outer atmosphere visible around the sun during a total eclipse.
- What letters can be added to CORONA?
- CORONA takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CORONA:
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