ICOSAHEDRAL is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. ICOSAHEDRAL 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 ICOSAHEDRAL?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ICOSAHEDRAL is to know. It scores 17 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ICOSAHEDRAL
No single letter turns ICOSAHEDRAL into another word.
How ICOSAHEDRAL scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in ICOSAHEDRAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ICOSAHEDRAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ICOSAHEDRAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Having the shape of an icosahedron, a solid with twenty faces.
Icosahedral shapes occur in nature, for example in the protein coats of many viruses. In gaming, an icosahedral die has twenty sides and is the familiar d20.
How ICOSAHEDRAL is used
Icosahedral is used in geometry, virology and crystallography.
- The virus has an icosahedral shell made of identical proteins.
- He rolled an icosahedral die to decide the outcome.
- The model showed an icosahedral arrangement of atoms.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ICOSAHEDRAL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ICOSAHEDRAL
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Common questions about ICOSAHEDRAL
- Is ICOSAHEDRAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ICOSAHEDRAL, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ICOSAHEDRAL worth?
- ICOSAHEDRAL is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ICOSAHEDRAL mean?
- Having the shape of an icosahedron, a solid with twenty faces.
- What letters can be added to ICOSAHEDRAL?
- No single letter can be added to ICOSAHEDRAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of ICOSAHEDRAL:
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