MEDIUS is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. MEDIUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MEDIUS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MEDIUS is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MEDIUS
No single letter turns MEDIUS into another word.
How MEDIUS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in MEDIUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 86,231.
What does MEDIUS mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The middle finger, as named in anatomy; also an old term for a middle voice part in music.
The Latin word means middle, and in anatomical Latin digitus medius names the longest finger of the hand. Earlier musicians also used medius for an inner vocal line between the highest and lowest parts in polyphonic music, usually an alto. Today that musical use is historical, and the word lives mostly in medical or scholarly writing.
How MEDIUS is used
Technical or historical; rarely found in ordinary conversation.
- The surgeon noted an injury to the medius of the left hand.
- The score assigns the medius to the lower treble voices.
- In the anatomy text, the medius is the longest digit.
- A choir historian explained what the medius sang in older motets.
- The label medius appears beside the middle line of the part-book.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MEDIUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MEDIUS
1 longer words begin with MEDIUS.
Shorter words from the letters in MEDIUS
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Common questions about MEDIUS
- Is MEDIUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MEDIUS, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MEDIUS worth?
- MEDIUS is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MEDIUS mean?
- The middle finger, as named in anatomy; also an old term for a middle voice part in music.
- What letters can be added to MEDIUS?
- No single letter can be added to MEDIUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of MEDIUS:
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