DIAPHONE is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. DIAPHONE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DIAPHONE?
| 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: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DIAPHONE is to know. It scores 14 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DIAPHONE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
diaphonesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DIAPHONE scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in DIAPHONE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so DIAPHONE has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about DIAPHONE
- All 8 letters of DIAPHONE are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does DIAPHONE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A low-pitched foghorn worked by compressed air, or the set of sounds that realise a single phoneme.
On coasts, a diaphone is the deep, grunting horn that warns ships in fog and ends each blast with a lower note. Linguists use the same word for the range of ways one phoneme is spoken across a language.
How DIAPHONE is used
Used in marine signalling and, separately, in phonetics.
- The lighthouse sounded its diaphone all night.
- A diaphone has a distinctive drop at the end of each blast.
- In phonetics, a diaphone groups related variants of one sound.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DIAPHONE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DIAPHONE
1 longer words begin with DIAPHONE.
Shorter words from the letters in DIAPHONE
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Common questions about DIAPHONE
- Is DIAPHONE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DIAPHONE, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DIAPHONE worth?
- DIAPHONE is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DIAPHONE mean?
- A low-pitched foghorn worked by compressed air, or the set of sounds that realise a single phoneme.
- What letters can be added to DIAPHONE?
- DIAPHONE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of DIAPHONE:
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