GYNECIUM is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. GYNECIUM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 20 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GYNECIUM?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GYNECIUM is to know. It scores 16 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GYNECIUM
No single letter turns GYNECIUM into another word.
How GYNECIUM scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in GYNECIUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so GYNECIUM has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about GYNECIUM
- All 8 letters of GYNECIUM are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does GYNECIUM mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
The female part of a flower, made up of one or more pistils.
In a flower the gynecium sits at the centre, surrounded by the stamens. Its parts are the stigma, style and ovary, and the ovary becomes the fruit once the flower is pollinated. The same structure is spelled gynoecium in some books.
How GYNECIUM is used
Gynecium is a botanical term found in textbooks and plant descriptions.
- The gynecium of a lily has a single long style.
- Students drew the gynecium and labelled the ovary.
- Pollen landed on the stigma of the gynecium.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GYNECIUM and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in GYNECIUM
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Common questions about GYNECIUM
- Is GYNECIUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GYNECIUM, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GYNECIUM worth?
- GYNECIUM is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GYNECIUM mean?
- The female part of a flower, made up of one or more pistils.
- What letters can be added to GYNECIUM?
- No single letter can be added to GYNECIUM to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of GYNECIUM:
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