HYSTEROID is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. HYSTEROID is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HYSTEROID?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HYSTEROID is to know. It scores 16 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HYSTEROID
No single letter turns HYSTEROID into another word.
How HYSTEROID scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in HYSTEROID, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so HYSTEROID has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about HYSTEROID
- All 9 letters of HYSTEROID are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does HYSTEROID mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medical
Resembling or tending toward hysteria.
Hysteroid is an older medical word for behaviour or symptoms that look like hysteria. Physicians once used it for outbursts of exaggerated emotion without an obvious physical cause. It is now rare and mainly met in old texts.
How HYSTEROID is used
Dated medical term, seldom used today.
- The old textbook described a hysteroid temperament.
- Doctors noted hysteroid symptoms such as sudden fits of weeping.
- A hysteroid reaction followed the shock.
- He wrote about hysteroid behaviour in nineteenth-century patients.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HYSTEROID and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of HYSTEROID
The 9 tiles of HYSTEROID in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with HYSTEROID
1 longer words begin with HYSTEROID.
Shorter words from the letters in HYSTEROID
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Common questions about HYSTEROID
- Is HYSTEROID valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HYSTEROID, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HYSTEROID worth?
- HYSTEROID is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HYSTEROID mean?
- Resembling or tending toward hysteria.
- What letters can be added to HYSTEROID?
- No single letter can be added to HYSTEROID to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of HYSTEROID:
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