DEXTRO is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. DEXTRO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DEXTRO?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DEXTRO is to know. It scores 14 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DEXTRO
No single letter turns DEXTRO into another word.
How DEXTRO scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in DEXTRO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 86,231.
What does DEXTRO mean in Scrabble?
adjective
chemistry
Turning or rotating to the right, as a substance does to a beam of polarised light.
Chemists use dextro, taken from Latin for right, to label compounds whose solutions twist polarised light clockwise. It is shorthand for dextrorotatory and appears in the names of some sugars and drugs. The opposite orientation is called laevo, from the word for left.
How DEXTRO is used
Technical; chiefly chemistry and pharmacology.
- The sample proved to be dextro when tested in the polarimeter.
- A dextro form of the sugar rotates light to the right.
- The label marks the compound as dextro rather than laevo.
- Students learned to tell a dextro isomer from its mirror image.
- This dextro version has a different effect from the other.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DEXTRO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DEXTRO
22 longer words begin with DEXTRO.
Shorter words from the letters in DEXTRO
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Common questions about DEXTRO
- Is DEXTRO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DEXTRO, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DEXTRO worth?
- DEXTRO is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DEXTRO mean?
- Turning or rotating to the right, as a substance does to a beam of polarised light.
- What letters can be added to DEXTRO?
- No single letter can be added to DEXTRO to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of DEXTRO:
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