DALTON is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. DALTON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DALTON?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DALTON is to know. It scores 7 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DALTON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
daltonsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DALTON scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in DALTON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 28,744.
What does DALTON mean in Scrabble?
noun
chemistrytechnical
A unit of mass, equal to one twelfth of the mass of a carbon-12 atom, used chiefly to express the mass of atoms and molecules such as proteins.
A dalton measures extremely small masses, close to the mass of a single hydrogen atom, and biochemists commonly state the size of a protein in kilodaltons rather than grams. The unit is formally the same as the atomic mass unit, but the name dalton is now favoured in most scientific writing, honouring the chemist John Dalton, who developed early atomic theory. Because proteins and other large molecules can weigh many thousands of daltons, the unit lets scientists compare molecular sizes conveniently. Instruments such as mass spectrometers report their results directly in daltons.
How DALTON is used
Standard unit in biochemistry, molecular biology and chemistry, used constantly when describing the size of molecules.
- The protein has a molecular weight of about seventy thousand daltons.
- Mass spectrometry measured the fragment at just under three hundred daltons.
- A single hydrogen atom weighs approximately one dalton.
- Researchers compared antibody fragments differing by only a few daltons.
- The textbook explains why the dalton replaced the older atomic mass unit in most papers.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DALTON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DALTON
6 longer words begin with DALTON.
Shorter words from the letters in DALTON
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Common questions about DALTON
- Is DALTON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DALTON, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DALTON worth?
- DALTON is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DALTON mean?
- A unit of mass, equal to one twelfth of the mass of a carbon-12 atom, used chiefly to express the mass of atoms and molecules such as proteins.
- What letters can be added to DALTON?
- DALTON takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of DALTON:
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