HISTOGEN is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. HISTOGEN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HISTOGEN?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HISTOGEN is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HISTOGEN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HISTOGEN scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in HISTOGEN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so HISTOGEN has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about HISTOGEN
- All 8 letters of HISTOGEN are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does HISTOGEN mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A region within a plant growing tip where tissues begin to differentiate.
Early botanists divided the growing point of a shoot into three histogen layers, each thought to form a particular part of the plant. The idea is now obsolete, replaced by a two-layer model.
How HISTOGEN is used
Histogen is a dated botanical term found mainly in older textbooks.
- The textbook described each histogen in the root tip.
- One histogen was thought to produce the outer skin.
- Modern researchers have abandoned the histogen theory.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HISTOGEN and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HISTOGEN
8 longer words begin with HISTOGEN.
Shorter words from the letters in HISTOGEN
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Common questions about HISTOGEN
- Is HISTOGEN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HISTOGEN, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HISTOGEN worth?
- HISTOGEN is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HISTOGEN mean?
- A region within a plant growing tip where tissues begin to differentiate.
- What letters can be added to HISTOGEN?
- HISTOGEN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of HISTOGEN:
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