EIDOS is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. EIDOS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept EIDOS?
| 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 EIDOS is to know. It scores 6 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EIDOS
No single letter turns EIDOS into another word.
How EIDOS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in EIDOS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 5,446.
What does EIDOS mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
In philosophy, the essential form, type, or defining character of a thing, as distinct from any of its particular physical instances.
Plato used eidos for the perfect, unchanging form that a particular object only ever imperfectly resembles, so that every physical chair reflects the single eidos of chair-ness without ever quite equaling it. Centuries later the philosopher Edmund Husserl borrowed the same Greek word for phenomenology, using eidos for the essential structure shared by every possible instance of a given kind of experience. Anthropologists have also adopted eidos in a narrower sense, applying it to the underlying intellectual pattern that shapes how a whole culture thinks and organizes knowledge. Because the term carries this much specialized history, it appears almost exclusively in academic writing rather than in everyday conversation.
How EIDOS is used
A specialist term from philosophy and anthropology, rarely used outside academic writing.
- The lecture explained how Plato's theory of eidos shaped later Western philosophy.
- Husserl used eidos to describe the essential structure behind an experience.
- The anthropologist described the eidos underlying the tribe's entire worldview.
- Students struggled to translate eidos without losing its original meaning.
- The essay argued that no single English word truly captures eidos.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EIDOS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words with EIDOS inside
8 words contain EIDOS in the middle. Words that start with EIDOS are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in EIDOS
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Common questions about EIDOS
- Is EIDOS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts EIDOS, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is EIDOS worth?
- EIDOS is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EIDOS mean?
- In philosophy, the essential form, type, or defining character of a thing, as distinct from any of its particular physical instances.
- What letters can be added to EIDOS?
- No single letter can be added to EIDOS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of EIDOS:
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