NOSOLOGY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. NOSOLOGY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NOSOLOGY?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NOSOLOGY is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NOSOLOGY
No single letter turns NOSOLOGY into another word.
How NOSOLOGY scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in NOSOLOGY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 3 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so NOSOLOGY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does NOSOLOGY mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicaltechnical
The branch of medicine that classifies diseases; a systematic list of diseases.
Nosology is about sorting illnesses into named categories, which is why it underlies manuals of diagnosis. Historians of medicine also use it for the classification schemes of earlier centuries.
How NOSOLOGY is used
Nosology is a specialist word used in medical science and the history of medicine.
- Modern nosology groups illnesses by cause and by symptoms.
- The professor lectured on eighteenth-century nosology.
- A new nosology of mental disorders was published last year.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NOSOLOGY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in NOSOLOGY
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Common questions about NOSOLOGY
- Is NOSOLOGY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NOSOLOGY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NOSOLOGY worth?
- NOSOLOGY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NOSOLOGY mean?
- The branch of medicine that classifies diseases; a systematic list of diseases.
- What letters can be added to NOSOLOGY?
- No single letter can be added to NOSOLOGY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of NOSOLOGY:
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