DIACHRONY is a valid Scrabble word — 18 points
Yes. DIACHRONY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DIACHRONY?
| 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 DIACHRONY is to know. It scores 18 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DIACHRONY
No single letter turns DIACHRONY into another word.
How DIACHRONY scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in DIACHRONY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so DIACHRONY has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about DIACHRONY
- All 9 letters of DIACHRONY are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does DIACHRONY mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The study of how something, especially a language, changes and develops over time.
Linguists contrast diachrony with synchrony, which looks at a language as it exists at a single moment. Tracing how a word changed its meaning over centuries is a diachrony question.
How DIACHRONY is used
Academic term used in linguistics and related fields.
- The course covers both the diachrony and the grammar of Old English.
- Diachrony asks how a sound changes across generations.
- Her thesis took a view of diachrony rather than present-day usage.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DIACHRONY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in DIACHRONY
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Common questions about DIACHRONY
- Is DIACHRONY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DIACHRONY, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DIACHRONY worth?
- DIACHRONY is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DIACHRONY mean?
- The study of how something, especially a language, changes and develops over time.
- What letters can be added to DIACHRONY?
- No single letter can be added to DIACHRONY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of DIACHRONY:
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