ICOSAHEDRON is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. ICOSAHEDRON 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 ICOSAHEDRON?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ICOSAHEDRON is to know. It scores 17 from 11 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ICOSAHEDRON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
icosahedronsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ICOSAHEDRON scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in ICOSAHEDRON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ICOSAHEDRON has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ICOSAHEDRON mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A solid figure with twenty flat faces, often triangles.
The regular icosahedron is one of the five Platonic solids and has twenty equilateral triangles meeting at twelve corners. It turns up in geometry lessons, in the structure of some viruses and in the twenty-sided dice of role-playing games.
How ICOSAHEDRON is used
Icosahedron is used in mathematics, chemistry and game design, with the plural icosahedra.
- The teacher held up a paper icosahedron during the lesson.
- An icosahedron has twenty faces and twelve vertices.
- The game uses a die shaped like an icosahedron.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ICOSAHEDRON and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ICOSAHEDRON
1 longer words begin with ICOSAHEDRON.
Shorter words from the letters in ICOSAHEDRON
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Common questions about ICOSAHEDRON
- Is ICOSAHEDRON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ICOSAHEDRON, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ICOSAHEDRON worth?
- ICOSAHEDRON is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ICOSAHEDRON mean?
- A solid figure with twenty flat faces, often triangles.
- What letters can be added to ICOSAHEDRON?
- ICOSAHEDRON takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of ICOSAHEDRON:
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