HYDROPS is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. HYDROPS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HYDROPS?
| 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: 53 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HYDROPS is to know. It scores 16 from 7 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HYDROPS
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
hydropsyChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How HYDROPS scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in HYDROPS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,605 thousand.
What stands out about HYDROPS
- HYDROPS gets by on a single vowel across 7 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does HYDROPS mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicalarchaic
An abnormal build-up of watery fluid in the tissues or cavities of the body; dropsy.
Doctors once used hydrops for any swelling from excess fluid, whatever the cause. Modern medicine names the underlying conditions, and hydrops survives in terms such as hydrops fetalis. The word comes from Greek and appears in older medical texts.
How HYDROPS is used
Hydrops is a medical term found in older texts and in a few specialist diagnoses.
- The old physician diagnosed hydrops and ordered rest.
- Ultrasound can reveal hydrops in an unborn child.
- A case of hydrops was described in the nineteenth-century journal.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HYDROPS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HYDROPS
3 longer words begin with HYDROPS.
Shorter words from the letters in HYDROPS
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Common questions about HYDROPS
- Is HYDROPS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HYDROPS, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HYDROPS worth?
- HYDROPS is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HYDROPS mean?
- An abnormal build-up of watery fluid in the tissues or cavities of the body; dropsy.
- What letters can be added to HYDROPS?
- HYDROPS takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of HYDROPS:
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