MONOBASIC is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. MONOBASIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MONOBASIC?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MONOBASIC is to know. It scores 15 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MONOBASIC
No single letter turns MONOBASIC into another word.
How MONOBASIC scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in MONOBASIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so MONOBASIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does MONOBASIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
chemistry
Describing an acid whose molecule carries just one hydrogen atom that a base can replace.
Chemists use monobasic to sort acids by how many hydrogen atoms they can give up in a reaction. Hydrochloric and nitric acid fall in this group, whereas sulphuric acid, which can give up two, does not. The count matters when working out how much base is needed to neutralise a given amount of acid.
How MONOBASIC is used
The word appears in chemistry teaching and laboratory writing when acids are compared by how many hydrogen atoms they can release.
- Nitric acid is a monobasic acid, so one mole of it needs one mole of sodium hydroxide.
- The student labelled the flask of hydrochloric acid as monobasic.
- A monobasic acid gives only one salt when it reacts with a simple base.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MONOBASIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in MONOBASIC
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Common questions about MONOBASIC
- Is MONOBASIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MONOBASIC, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MONOBASIC worth?
- MONOBASIC is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MONOBASIC mean?
- Describing an acid whose molecule carries just one hydrogen atom that a base can replace.
- What letters can be added to MONOBASIC?
- No single letter can be added to MONOBASIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of MONOBASIC:
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