HELIOTROPIC is a valid Scrabble word — 18 points
Yes. HELIOTROPIC 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 HELIOTROPIC?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HELIOTROPIC is to know. It scores 18 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HELIOTROPIC
No single letter turns HELIOTROPIC into another word.
How HELIOTROPIC scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in HELIOTROPIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so HELIOTROPIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does HELIOTROPIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
botanytechnical
Turning or growing toward the sun in response to its light.
Botanists use heliotropic for plants whose stems or flowers follow the sun across the sky. A heliotropic sunflower head tracks the light, whereas a plant that merely grows tall is not necessarily doing so.
How HELIOTROPIC is used
Heliotropic appears mostly in biology and gardening texts describing plant movement.
- The young sunflowers are strongly heliotropic and face east at dawn.
- A heliotropic response lets leaves catch more light during the day.
- Scientists measured how heliotropic the seedlings were under lamps.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HELIOTROPIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HELIOTROPIC
2 longer words begin with HELIOTROPIC.
Shorter words from the letters in HELIOTROPIC
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Common questions about HELIOTROPIC
- Is HELIOTROPIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HELIOTROPIC, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HELIOTROPIC worth?
- HELIOTROPIC is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HELIOTROPIC mean?
- Turning or growing toward the sun in response to its light.
- What letters can be added to HELIOTROPIC?
- No single letter can be added to HELIOTROPIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of HELIOTROPIC:
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