ONIUM is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. ONIUM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ONIUM?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ONIUM is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ONIUM
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ONIUM scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ONIUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What does ONIUM mean in Scrabble?
noun
chemistry
A positively charged ion formed when a proton or other group attaches to a neutral atom or molecule, such as ammonium or oxonium.
Chemists use the suffix -onium to name this whole family of cations, so ammonium, oxonium, and sulfonium all count as an onium even though each forms from a different starting atom. The term lets a chemist speak of the shared behavior of such ions, such as their positive charge and their tendency to pair with a separate negative ion in a salt, without listing every member of the family by name.
How ONIUM is used
A specialist chemistry term, used to describe a whole class of cations named with the suffix -onium.
- Chemists group ammonium and oxonium together as onium species.
- The reaction produced an onium salt as an intermediate.
- Textbooks explain how an onium forms when a lone pair accepts a proton.
- The onium ion carried a single positive charge in solution.
- Researchers studied a new onium compound for use as a catalyst.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ONIUM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ONIUM
1 longer words begin with ONIUM.
Words ending in ONIUM
Showing 24 of 48 words that end in ONIUM. Useful as a back hook: play ONIUM onto a word already on the board.
Words with ONIUM inside
Showing 24 of 37 words that contain ONIUM somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ONIUM are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ONIUM
Common questions about ONIUM
- Is ONIUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ONIUM, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ONIUM worth?
- ONIUM is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ONIUM mean?
- A positively charged ion formed when a proton or other group attaches to a neutral atom or molecule, such as ammonium or oxonium.
- What letters can be added to ONIUM?
- ONIUM takes 4 hooks: 3 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ONIUM:
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