GIGAFLOP is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. GIGAFLOP is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GIGAFLOP?
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GIGAFLOP is to know. It scores 15 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GIGAFLOP
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
gigaflopsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GIGAFLOP scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in GIGAFLOP, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 2 | 3 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so GIGAFLOP has to be built on the board across turns.
What does GIGAFLOP mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A measure of computer speed equal to one billion floating-point operations per second.
Engineers once compared supercomputers by the gigaflop, but modern machines are rated in far larger units such as teraflops. The figure counts calculations with decimal numbers.
How GIGAFLOP is used
Technical; used in computing, often written GFLOPS.
- The old workstation delivered one gigaflop at best.
- A graphics card can reach many a gigaflop without effort.
- The benchmark reported a score of five gigaflop.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GIGAFLOP and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GIGAFLOP
1 longer words begin with GIGAFLOP.
Shorter words from the letters in GIGAFLOP
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Common questions about GIGAFLOP
- Is GIGAFLOP valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GIGAFLOP, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GIGAFLOP worth?
- GIGAFLOP is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GIGAFLOP mean?
- A measure of computer speed equal to one billion floating-point operations per second.
- What letters can be added to GIGAFLOP?
- GIGAFLOP takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of GIGAFLOP:
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