MYOPS is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. MYOPS is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept MYOPS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MYOPS is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MYOPS
No single letter turns MYOPS into another word.
How MYOPS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MYOPS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 294,092.
What stands out about MYOPS
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does MYOPS mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicalrare
A short-sighted person; an older term for a myope.
Myops descends straight from the Greek root behind the word myopia, and it once labelled anyone whose eyes could not bring distant things into sharp focus. Older textbooks on the eye used myops the way later writers used the more familiar spelling, treating the two as interchangeable names for the same condition of the eyes. Over time the newer spelling won out in ordinary and clinical use, and myops slipped into being a curiosity for word lists and etymology rather than an everyday label. It now turns up chiefly when writers trace how English absorbed Greek terms for eyesight.
How MYOPS is used
Rare and technical; found in older medical or etymological writing rather than in modern clinical use.
- The old textbook refers to a myops rather than a myope.
- He was described in the case notes as a confirmed myops.
- Historical writing on eyesight sometimes prefers myops to the modern term.
- The dictionary lists myops as an older word for a short-sighted person.
- Spectacle makers once used myops for anyone needing corrective lenses for distance.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MYOPS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of MYOPS
The 5 tiles of MYOPS in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with MYOPS
1 longer words begin with MYOPS.
Shorter words from the letters in MYOPS
Common questions about MYOPS
- Is MYOPS valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and MYOPS is not in it.
- How many points is MYOPS worth?
- MYOPS is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MYOPS mean?
- A short-sighted person; an older term for a myope.
- What letters can be added to MYOPS?
- No single letter can be added to MYOPS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MYOPS:
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