MICROPYLAR is a valid Scrabble word — 19 points
Yes. MICROPYLAR is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 19 points in Scrabble and 22 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MICROPYLAR?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MICROPYLAR is to know. It scores 19 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MICROPYLAR
No single letter turns MICROPYLAR into another word.
How MICROPYLAR scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in MICROPYLAR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so MICROPYLAR has to be built on the board across turns.
What does MICROPYLAR mean in Scrabble?
adjective
botanyzoologytechnical
Relating to the micropyle, the tiny opening in an ovule or egg through which sperm or a pollen tube enters.
Micropylar describes structures near that small pore, for example the micropylar end of a seed. Botanists and embryologists use it when tracing how fertilisation takes place. It is highly specialised and almost never met outside textbooks.
How MICROPYLAR is used
Confined to botany and zoology papers describing seeds and eggs.
- The pollen tube grows toward the micropylar end of the ovule.
- A micropylar canal is visible in the fish egg.
- The micropylar region was stained for study.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MICROPYLAR and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in MICROPYLAR
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Common questions about MICROPYLAR
- Is MICROPYLAR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MICROPYLAR, where it scores 22 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MICROPYLAR worth?
- MICROPYLAR is worth 19 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MICROPYLAR mean?
- Relating to the micropyle, the tiny opening in an ovule or egg through which sperm or a pollen tube enters.
- What letters can be added to MICROPYLAR?
- No single letter can be added to MICROPYLAR to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of MICROPYLAR:
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