EPONYM is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. EPONYM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept EPONYM?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EPONYM is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EPONYM
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How EPONYM scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in EPONYM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 258,692.
What does EPONYM mean in Scrabble?
noun
A real or imagined person whose name gives its name to something such as a place, a discovery or an era.
Washington state has George Washington as its eponym, and the diesel engine has Rudolf Diesel. The word is also used for a character who gives a title to a book or film, like Hamlet in the play. Eponym comes from Greek roots meaning "given as a name". Words made from such a name, like sandwich from the Earl of Sandwich, are called eponymous.
How EPONYM is used
Common in scholarly writing, history and the history of science.
- Romulus is the supposed eponym of the city of Rome.
- The eponym of the disease was a nineteenth-century physician.
- Nobel is the eponym of the famous prizes.
- She traced every eponym in the book of place names.
- The title character is the eponym of the novel.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EPONYM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with EPONYM
6 longer words begin with EPONYM.
Shorter words from the letters in EPONYM
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Common questions about EPONYM
- Is EPONYM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts EPONYM, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is EPONYM worth?
- EPONYM is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EPONYM mean?
- A real or imagined person whose name gives its name to something such as a place, a discovery or an era.
- What letters can be added to EPONYM?
- EPONYM takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of EPONYM:
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