MONAD is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. MONAD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MONAD?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MONAD is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MONAD
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
monadsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MONAD scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MONAD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What does MONAD mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A single, indivisible fundamental unit; especially, in the philosophy of Gottfried Leibniz, one of the simple, self-contained substances held to make up all of reality.
Leibniz introduced the monad as the basic building block of his philosophical system, describing each monad as a simple, indivisible substance that contains its own complete inner world without any true interaction with other monads outside it. Later philosophers and historians of ideas continue to use monad to discuss this theory of pre-established harmony, in which every monad unfolds according to its own internal programme rather than by direct cause and effect with its neighbours. Biologists have separately borrowed the same word for a single-celled microorganism, particularly certain simple protozoans studied under early microscopes. Chemists, too, occasionally use monad for an atom or group with a valence of one, showing how the core idea of a single indivisible unit spread from philosophy into several unrelated sciences.
How MONAD is used
A technical term found mainly in philosophy, where it names Leibniz's indivisible units of reality, and occasionally in biology and chemistry for a single basic unit.
- Leibniz argued that each monad reflects the whole universe from its own perspective.
- The philosophy seminar spent a week debating the nature of the monad.
- Early microscopists described the monad as a tiny single-celled creature.
- Chemists once classified certain elements as a monad based on valence.
- According to this theory, no monad can causally affect another directly.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MONAD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of MONAD
The 5 tiles of MONAD in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with MONAD
15 longer words begin with MONAD.
Words ending in MONAD
2 words end in MONAD. Useful as a back hook: play MONAD onto a word already on the board.
Words with MONAD inside
7 words contain MONAD in the middle. Words that start with MONAD are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in MONAD
Common questions about MONAD
- Is MONAD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MONAD, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MONAD worth?
- MONAD is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MONAD mean?
- A single, indivisible fundamental unit; especially, in the philosophy of Gottfried Leibniz, one of the simple, self-contained substances held to make up all of reality.
- What letters can be added to MONAD?
- MONAD takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MONAD:
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