HILUS is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. HILUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HILUS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HILUS is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HILUS
No single letter turns HILUS into another word.
How HILUS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HILUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does HILUS mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicaltechnical
A natural notch or opening on an organ's surface, such as the kidney or spleen, through which its vessels, nerves, and ducts pass; also spelled hilum.
Anatomists use hilus for the natural notch or depression where a bundle of vessels, nerves, and connective tissue passes into an organ that otherwise has a smooth outer surface, such as the concave inner edge of the kidney. The term derives from Latin, where it originally referred to the tiny scar on a seed marking where it had been attached to its stalk, and physicians later borrowed the same word for comparable openings in the body. Modern medical writing more often favours the spelling hilum, though hilus remains common, especially in older textbooks and in phrases like pulmonary hilus for the lung. Both spellings share the same plural, hila, when referring to more than one such structure.
How HILUS is used
A technical anatomical term, somewhat less common today than the alternative spelling hilum, but still widely used in medical writing.
- The renal hilus is where the kidney's vessels and ureter connect.
- Surgeons located the hilus before clamping the blood supply.
- The pulmonary hilus contains the main airway and major vessels.
- A tumour near the hilus can be difficult to remove safely.
- The textbook illustrated the hilus of the spleen in cross section.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HILUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in HILUS
3 words end in HILUS. Useful as a back hook: play HILUS onto a word already on the board.
Words with HILUS inside
2 words contain HILUS in the middle. Words that start with HILUS are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HILUS
Common questions about HILUS
- Is HILUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HILUS, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HILUS worth?
- HILUS is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HILUS mean?
- A natural notch or opening on an organ's surface, such as the kidney or spleen, through which its vessels, nerves, and ducts pass; also spelled hilum.
- What letters can be added to HILUS?
- No single letter can be added to HILUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HILUS:
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