LEUKON is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. LEUKON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LEUKON?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LEUKON is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LEUKON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
leukonsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How LEUKON scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in LEUKON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 129,346.
What does LEUKON mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicaltechnical
The whole mass of white blood cells in the body, treated as a single organ-like system.
Physiologists use leukon for the combined population of white blood cells and the tissues that make them, much as one speaks of the erythron for red cells. The idea is that these scattered cells behave as one working whole. It is a specialist term and rarely appears outside haematology texts.
How LEUKON is used
Technical term from haematology, found in textbooks rather than in ordinary speech.
- The leukon responds quickly when an infection begins.
- A lecture on the leukon explained how white cells are produced.
- Damage to the leukon leaves the body open to disease.
- The textbook compares the leukon with the erythron.
- Doctors sometimes measure the size of the leukon through a blood count.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LEUKON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with LEUKON
1 longer words begin with LEUKON.
Shorter words from the letters in LEUKON
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Common questions about LEUKON
- Is LEUKON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LEUKON, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LEUKON worth?
- LEUKON is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LEUKON mean?
- The whole mass of white blood cells in the body, treated as a single organ-like system.
- What letters can be added to LEUKON?
- LEUKON takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of LEUKON:
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