EPITAXIAL is a valid Scrabble word — 18 points
Yes. EPITAXIAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 20 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept EPITAXIAL?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EPITAXIAL is to know. It scores 18 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EPITAXIAL
No single letter turns EPITAXIAL into another word.
How EPITAXIAL scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in EPITAXIAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so EPITAXIAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What does EPITAXIAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Describing a thin crystal layer grown on another crystal so that it copies the underlying structure.
Chip makers rely on epitaxial growth to lay down silicon layers whose atoms line up with those of the base wafer. The word comes from epitaxy, the orderly overgrowth of one crystal on another.
How EPITAXIAL is used
Technical term from materials science and electronics.
- An epitaxial layer of silicon was grown on the wafer.
- The lab studies epitaxial films of gallium arsenide.
- Epitaxial growth needs a very clean chamber.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EPITAXIAL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with EPITAXIAL
1 longer words begin with EPITAXIAL.
Shorter words from the letters in EPITAXIAL
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Common questions about EPITAXIAL
- Is EPITAXIAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts EPITAXIAL, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is EPITAXIAL worth?
- EPITAXIAL is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EPITAXIAL mean?
- Describing a thin crystal layer grown on another crystal so that it copies the underlying structure.
- What letters can be added to EPITAXIAL?
- No single letter can be added to EPITAXIAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of EPITAXIAL:
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