HYPO is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. HYPO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HYPO?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HYPO is to know. It scores 12 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 3.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HYPO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
hyposChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HYPO scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in HYPO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 61,269.
What does HYPO mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A photographic fixing agent.
Hypo is short for a chemical name that turned out to be wrong: the compound is not what nineteenth-century chemists took it for, and the abbreviation outlived the error. In medicine the same four letters are short for something else entirely.
How HYPO is used
Uncountable. Two unrelated senses.
- A print is washed after the hypo and not before.
- The word hypo is short for a chemical name that was wrong.
- Hypo in medicine is a different abbreviation.
- Two senses of hypo and no connection between them.
- Fixing a negative needs hypo and time.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HYPO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HYPO
Showing 24 of 338 words that begin with HYPO.
Words with HYPO inside
24 words contain HYPO in the middle. Words that start with HYPO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HYPO
Common questions about HYPO
- Is HYPO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HYPO, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HYPO worth?
- HYPO is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HYPO mean?
- A photographic fixing agent.
- What letters can be added to HYPO?
- HYPO takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of HYPO:
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