MIGRAINOUS is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. MIGRAINOUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MIGRAINOUS?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MIGRAINOUS is to know. It scores 13 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MIGRAINOUS
No single letter turns MIGRAINOUS into another word.
How MIGRAINOUS scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in MIGRAINOUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so MIGRAINOUS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does MIGRAINOUS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medical
Of the nature of a migraine or connected with it.
A doctor may call a headache migrainous when it comes with nausea, one-sided pain and sensitivity to light. The label migrainous helps separate that pattern from tension headaches or other conditions.
How MIGRAINOUS is used
Used in clinical descriptions of headaches, symptoms and patients.
- The neurologist suspected a migrainous cause for the dizziness.
- His migrainous attacks always began with a shimmering patch of light.
- The report listed several migrainous symptoms.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MIGRAINOUS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in MIGRAINOUS
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Common questions about MIGRAINOUS
- Is MIGRAINOUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MIGRAINOUS, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MIGRAINOUS worth?
- MIGRAINOUS is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MIGRAINOUS mean?
- Of the nature of a migraine or connected with it.
- What letters can be added to MIGRAINOUS?
- No single letter can be added to MIGRAINOUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of MIGRAINOUS:
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