DISOMY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. DISOMY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DISOMY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DISOMY is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DISOMY
No single letter turns DISOMY into another word.
How DISOMY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in DISOMY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 258,692.
What does DISOMY mean in Scrabble?
noun
technicalmedical
The normal genetic state of having two copies of a particular chromosome.
In human genetics disomy is the expected arrangement, one chromosome of each pair coming from each parent. The term turns up mostly in the phrase uniparental disomy, where both copies of a chromosome come from the same parent, which can cause health problems. It is built from Greek roots for two and body, the same root that appears in trisomy and monosomy.
How DISOMY is used
Specialist term in genetics and medicine; the adjective is disomic.
- Disomy is the usual state for each of the autosomes in a healthy cell.
- The report found maternal uniparental disomy on chromosome fifteen.
- Tests can show whether a cell has disomy or an extra copy.
- Students compared disomy with trisomy in the genetics class.
- Disomy for the sex chromosomes means two X chromosomes or an X and a Y.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DISOMY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DISOMY
The 6 tiles of DISOMY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in DISOMY
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Common questions about DISOMY
- Is DISOMY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DISOMY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DISOMY worth?
- DISOMY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DISOMY mean?
- The normal genetic state of having two copies of a particular chromosome.
- What letters can be added to DISOMY?
- No single letter can be added to DISOMY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of DISOMY:
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