MASURIUM is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. MASURIUM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MASURIUM?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MASURIUM is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MASURIUM
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
masuriumsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MASURIUM scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in MASURIUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 2 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so MASURIUM has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about MASURIUM
- MASURIUM begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does MASURIUM mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A name once proposed for element 43, which is now called technetium.
German chemists announced masurium in the 1920s, but later researchers could not confirm the discovery. The element was eventually made artificially and given a different name, leaving masurium as a curiosity of science history.
How MASURIUM is used
Found only in the history of chemistry, never in modern tables.
- Old textbooks sometimes list masurium as a claimed element.
- The discoverers of masurium never managed to prove their claim.
- No sample of masurium was ever isolated in those experiments.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MASURIUM and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MASURIUM
1 longer words begin with MASURIUM.
Shorter words from the letters in MASURIUM
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Common questions about MASURIUM
- Is MASURIUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MASURIUM, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MASURIUM worth?
- MASURIUM is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MASURIUM mean?
- A name once proposed for element 43, which is now called technetium.
- What letters can be added to MASURIUM?
- MASURIUM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of MASURIUM:
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