NOSOCOMIAL is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. NOSOCOMIAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NOSOCOMIAL?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NOSOCOMIAL is to know. It scores 14 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NOSOCOMIAL
No single letter turns NOSOCOMIAL into another word.
How NOSOCOMIAL scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in NOSOCOMIAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 3 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so NOSOCOMIAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What does NOSOCOMIAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medical
Acquired in, or originating from, a hospital.
A nosocomial infection is one that a patient catches during a stay in care rather than before arriving. Hospitals track such cases closely and use hand washing and cleaning rules to reduce them. The word comes from medical Latin and rarely appears outside health writing.
How NOSOCOMIAL is used
Used in medicine, almost always before the word infection.
- A nosocomial infection prolonged her stay by two weeks.
- Strict hygiene lowered nosocomial cases on the ward.
- The report studied nosocomial outbreaks across several hospitals.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NOSOCOMIAL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in NOSOCOMIAL
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Common questions about NOSOCOMIAL
- Is NOSOCOMIAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NOSOCOMIAL, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NOSOCOMIAL worth?
- NOSOCOMIAL is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NOSOCOMIAL mean?
- Acquired in, or originating from, a hospital.
- What letters can be added to NOSOCOMIAL?
- No single letter can be added to NOSOCOMIAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of NOSOCOMIAL:
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