LEPTON is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. LEPTON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LEPTON?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LEPTON is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LEPTON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
leptonsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How LEPTON scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in LEPTON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,115.
What does LEPTON mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A subatomic particle, such as an electron, muon or neutrino, that does not take part in the strong nuclear force.
Physicists group all matter particles into two broad families, quarks and leptons, and a lepton is defined by what it does not do, namely feel the strong force that binds atomic nuclei together. The electron is by far the best known lepton, found in every atom, while its heavier relatives the muon and tau, along with three kinds of neutrino, complete the family. Separately and unrelated to physics, lepton was also the name of a small former Greek coin, worth a hundredth of a drachma, a sense that survives mainly in older texts and coin collecting.
How LEPTON is used
The physics sense is the common modern use; the old Greek coin sense is now mainly historical.
- The electron is the most familiar lepton in everyday matter.
- The experiment tracked how the lepton passed through the detector.
- A muon is a lepton similar to the electron but far more massive.
- Old Greek accounts list prices in lepton alongside the drachma.
- Neutrinos are leptons that interact so weakly they rarely leave a trace.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LEPTON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with LEPTON
2 longer words begin with LEPTON.
Shorter words from the letters in LEPTON
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Common questions about LEPTON
- Is LEPTON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LEPTON, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LEPTON worth?
- LEPTON is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LEPTON mean?
- A subatomic particle, such as an electron, muon or neutrino, that does not take part in the strong nuclear force.
- What letters can be added to LEPTON?
- LEPTON takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of LEPTON:
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