HETEROGONIC is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. HETEROGONIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HETEROGONIC?
| 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 HETEROGONIC is to know. It scores 17 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HETEROGONIC
No single letter turns HETEROGONIC into another word.
How HETEROGONIC scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in HETEROGONIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so HETEROGONIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does HETEROGONIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Relating to heterogony, in which an organism alternates between different kinds of reproduction or flower forms.
Heterogonic cycles occur in some small animals that switch between sexual and asexual generations. In botany the term has also been applied to plants whose flowers differ in the length of their stamens and pistils.
How HETEROGONIC is used
Heterogonic is a specialist word in biology and botany and rarely appears outside them.
- The rotifer has a heterogonic life cycle with two kinds of generation.
- The primrose is a classic heterogonic plant with two flower forms.
- The paper describes heterogonic reproduction in the aphid.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HETEROGONIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
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Common questions about HETEROGONIC
- Is HETEROGONIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HETEROGONIC, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HETEROGONIC worth?
- HETEROGONIC is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HETEROGONIC mean?
- Relating to heterogony, in which an organism alternates between different kinds of reproduction or flower forms.
- What letters can be added to HETEROGONIC?
- No single letter can be added to HETEROGONIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of HETEROGONIC:
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