OIDIUM is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. OIDIUM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OIDIUM?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OIDIUM is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OIDIUM
No single letter turns OIDIUM into another word.
How OIDIUM scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in OIDIUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 129,346.
What does OIDIUM mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A thin-walled fungal spore formed when a strand of the fungus breaks into separate cells; also the powdery mildew disease of grapevines.
Mycologists use oidium for the small spores that a fungus produces by fragmenting its threadlike hyphae, a method of reproducing without sex. Growers, especially in wine regions, know the word as the old name for powdery mildew on vines, which coats leaves and young grapes in a pale dust. The disease reached Europe from North America in the 1840s and caused heavy losses before sulphur treatment was found. The plural is oidia.
How OIDIUM is used
Technical term in botany and viticulture; the plural form is oidia.
- The vineyard lost a third of its crop to oidium.
- Under the microscope each oidium looked like a tiny clear bead.
- Sulphur dust is the traditional cure for oidium.
- An oidium forms when the fungal strand breaks apart.
- The farmer checked the young leaves for signs of oidium.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OIDIUM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in OIDIUM
Common questions about OIDIUM
- Is OIDIUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OIDIUM, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OIDIUM worth?
- OIDIUM is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OIDIUM mean?
- A thin-walled fungal spore formed when a strand of the fungus breaks into separate cells; also the powdery mildew disease of grapevines.
- What letters can be added to OIDIUM?
- No single letter can be added to OIDIUM to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of OIDIUM:
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