NEURON is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. NEURON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NEURON?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NEURON is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NEURON
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How NEURON scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in NEURON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 2 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 34,492.
What stands out about NEURON
- NEURON begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does NEURON mean in Scrabble?
noun
technicalmedical
A nerve cell that carries electrical and chemical signals through the nervous system.
A neuron is built to pass a signal along its length and then hand it to the next cell across a tiny gap called a synapse, and the brain alone holds tens of billions of them wired together. Some neurons carry messages from the senses toward the brain, others carry commands from the brain out to muscles, and still others simply connect one neuron to another inside the brain itself. Damage to a neuron can block the signal it used to carry, which is why injury to the spinal cord often numbs or paralyses the body below the injury. The word is central to neuroscience, the branch of biology devoted to the nervous system.
How NEURON is used
Standard biological and medical term; common in science writing and increasingly in everyday talk about the brain.
- Each neuron can connect to thousands of other cells.
- The injury destroyed the neuron pathways that controlled her hand.
- A single neuron fires an electrical pulse in a fraction of a second.
- The diagram labelled every part of the neuron, from cell body to axon.
- Scientists grew a neuron in a dish to study how it forms connections.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NEURON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with NEURON
5 longer words begin with NEURON.
Shorter words from the letters in NEURON
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Common questions about NEURON
- Is NEURON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NEURON, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NEURON worth?
- NEURON is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NEURON mean?
- A nerve cell that carries electrical and chemical signals through the nervous system.
- What letters can be added to NEURON?
- NEURON takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of NEURON:
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