MERISIS is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. MERISIS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MERISIS?
| 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: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MERISIS is to know. It scores 9 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MERISIS
No single letter turns MERISIS into another word.
How MERISIS scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in MERISIS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 514,646.
What does MERISIS mean in Scrabble?
noun
botanytechnical
Growth of a plant by an increase in the number of its cells, rather than by their enlargement.
Botanists contrast merisis with simple cell expansion when they study how tissues grow. The term is highly specialist and seldom met outside plant biology. It comes from a Greek word for division.
How MERISIS is used
The word merisis is rare, used only in technical plant science.
- The thickening of the root results from merisis in its outer tissue.
- Researchers measured merisis in the young leaf.
- Rapid merisis produced a swollen bud.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MERISIS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of MERISIS
The 7 tiles of MERISIS in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in MERISIS
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Common questions about MERISIS
- Is MERISIS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MERISIS, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MERISIS worth?
- MERISIS is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MERISIS mean?
- Growth of a plant by an increase in the number of its cells, rather than by their enlargement.
- What letters can be added to MERISIS?
- No single letter can be added to MERISIS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of MERISIS:
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