ORNIS is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. ORNIS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ORNIS?
| 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: 25 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ORNIS is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ORNIS
No single letter turns ORNIS into another word.
How ORNIS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ORNIS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 7,262.
What stands out about ORNIS
- The same 5 tiles also spell 6 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ORNIS mean in Scrabble?
noun
rarezoology
The birds of a particular region considered together; the avifauna of an area.
Ornis is a learned, rarely used word borrowed directly from the Greek word for bird, and it names an entire regional population of birds rather than any single species. Naturalists once used it much as avifauna is used today, as in describing the ornis of an island or a mountain range in a scientific survey. The same Greek root appears far more often as a building block in words like ornithology and ornithologist, which is where most readers meet it without realizing the connection. On its own, ornis has become largely obsolete outside specialist or antiquarian natural history writing.
How ORNIS is used
A rare, learned term found mainly in older or specialist natural history writing rather than in everyday English.
- The naturalist catalogued the ornis of the remote archipelago.
- Victorian surveys often described the local ornis in careful detail.
- Few birdwatchers today would recognize the word ornis.
- The report compared the ornis of the two neighboring valleys.
- Old field guides sometimes used ornis where we would now say avifauna.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ORNIS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ORNIS
The 5 tiles of ORNIS in a different order — 6 found.
Words starting with ORNIS
1 longer words begin with ORNIS.
Words ending in ORNIS
4 words end in ORNIS. Useful as a back hook: play ORNIS onto a word already on the board.
Words with ORNIS inside
11 words contain ORNIS in the middle. Words that start with ORNIS are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ORNIS
Common questions about ORNIS
- Is ORNIS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ORNIS, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ORNIS worth?
- ORNIS is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ORNIS mean?
- The birds of a particular region considered together; the avifauna of an area.
- What letters can be added to ORNIS?
- No single letter can be added to ORNIS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ORNIS:
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