OPERON is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. OPERON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OPERON?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OPERON is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OPERON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
operonsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OPERON scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in OPERON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 2 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 49,275.
What does OPERON mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A cluster of genes in bacteria that are controlled together and switched on or off as a single unit.
Genes inside an operon share one set of instructions telling the cell when to read them, so the whole group turns on together when needed and stays silent together otherwise, saving the cell from wasting effort on proteins it does not currently require. The classic example is the lac operon in E. coli, which switches on genes for digesting sugar only when that sugar is actually present. The concept, first described by Jacob and Monod in the 1960s, remains central to how biologists explain gene regulation in bacteria.
How OPERON is used
A specialist term from molecular biology and genetics, met in textbooks and research rather than everyday speech.
- The lac operon switches on only when lactose is available to the bacterium.
- Students mapped each gene within the operon and its shared control region.
- Mutating the regulatory region can leave an entire operon permanently active.
- The researchers compared operon structure across several bacterial species.
- A single promoter controls transcription of the whole operon at once.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OPERON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OPERON
1 longer words begin with OPERON.
Shorter words from the letters in OPERON
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Common questions about OPERON
- Is OPERON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OPERON, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OPERON worth?
- OPERON is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OPERON mean?
- A cluster of genes in bacteria that are controlled together and switched on or off as a single unit.
- What letters can be added to OPERON?
- OPERON takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of OPERON:
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