HOLOGAMY is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. HOLOGAMY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HOLOGAMY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HOLOGAMY is to know. It scores 17 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HOLOGAMY
No single letter turns HOLOGAMY into another word.
How HOLOGAMY scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in HOLOGAMY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so HOLOGAMY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does HOLOGAMY mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
Sexual reproduction in which the gametes are the same size and form as ordinary body cells.
This occurs in some simple organisms, where whole cells act as gametes and fuse. Hologamy contrasts with the usual pattern where eggs and sperm are specialised and differ from body cells.
How HOLOGAMY is used
Hologamy is a specialist biological term used in microbiology texts.
- Hologamy is seen in certain single-celled organisms.
- The paper compared hologamy with typical sexual reproduction.
- In hologamy, two ordinary cells fuse to form a zygote.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HOLOGAMY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in HOLOGAMY
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Common questions about HOLOGAMY
- Is HOLOGAMY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HOLOGAMY, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HOLOGAMY worth?
- HOLOGAMY is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HOLOGAMY mean?
- Sexual reproduction in which the gametes are the same size and form as ordinary body cells.
- What letters can be added to HOLOGAMY?
- No single letter can be added to HOLOGAMY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of HOLOGAMY:
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