HETEROGONY is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. HETEROGONY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HETEROGONY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HETEROGONY is to know. It scores 17 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HETEROGONY
No single letter turns HETEROGONY into another word.
How HETEROGONY scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in HETEROGONY, 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 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so HETEROGONY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does HETEROGONY mean in Scrabble?
noun
botanyzoology
In biology, either an alternation of different generation types in a life cycle or the presence of flowers with different stamen lengths on one species.
Heterogony describes variety inside one species: in animals it is the shifting between sexual and parthenogenetic generations. In plants it refers to blooms whose stamens and pistils come in different lengths, as in primroses.
How HETEROGONY is used
Heterogony is a specialist term in zoology and plant biology.
- Heterogony allows some small animals to multiply quickly in summer.
- Darwin studied heterogony in primrose flowers.
- The lecture covered heterogony in nematodes and plants.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HETEROGONY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in HETEROGONY
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Common questions about HETEROGONY
- Is HETEROGONY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HETEROGONY, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HETEROGONY worth?
- HETEROGONY is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HETEROGONY mean?
- In biology, either an alternation of different generation types in a life cycle or the presence of flowers with different stamen lengths on one species.
- What letters can be added to HETEROGONY?
- No single letter can be added to HETEROGONY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of HETEROGONY:
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