MICRON is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. MICRON 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 MICRON?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MICRON is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MICRON
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MICRON scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in MICRON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 114,974.
What does MICRON mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The older everyday name for the micrometre, the scale used to measure bacteria, dust particles and the thickness of a hair.
The micron is used where millimetres are too coarse, for example to describe the thickness of a hair, the pores of a filter or the size of a bacterium. Its official name is the micrometre, and the older name micron still lingers in industry and laboratories. A human hair is roughly seventy of them across.
How MICRON is used
Technical; the formal name is micrometre, symbol the Greek letter mu followed by m.
- The filter catches particles larger than one micron.
- A red blood cell is about seven micron across.
- The coating is only a few micron thick.
- Dust finer than a micron stays in the air for hours.
- The lens was ground to within a micron of the design.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MICRON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MICRON
22 longer words begin with MICRON.
Shorter words from the letters in MICRON
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Common questions about MICRON
- Is MICRON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MICRON, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MICRON worth?
- MICRON is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MICRON mean?
- The older everyday name for the micrometre, the scale used to measure bacteria, dust particles and the thickness of a hair.
- What letters can be added to MICRON?
- MICRON takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of MICRON:
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