OROGEN is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. OROGEN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OROGEN?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OROGEN is to know. It scores 7 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OROGEN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OROGEN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in OROGEN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 2 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,850.
What does OROGEN mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A belt of the Earth's crust that has been folded and uplifted into mountains by the collision or movement of tectonic plates.
Geologists use orogen to name the whole deformed region produced by mountain-building, rather than any single peak or range within it, so an orogen can stretch for thousands of kilometres. The Himalayas, formed where the Indian and Eurasian plates continue to collide, are studied as a classic modern orogen. Rocks within an orogen typically show intense folding, faulting, and metamorphism from the immense pressures involved, evidence that geologists read to reconstruct how the mountains formed. The related noun orogeny names the mountain-building process itself, while orogen refers to its lasting result in the crust.
How OROGEN is used
A specialist term from structural geology, used when discussing mountain belts and the tectonic processes that created them.
- The Himalayan orogen continues to rise as the plates push together.
- Geologists mapped the folded rocks of the ancient orogen.
- A collision between two continents produced this orogen millions of years ago.
- The textbook chapter compared several orogens around the world.
- Faulting within the orogen offered clues to its violent history.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OROGEN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of OROGEN
The 6 tiles of OROGEN in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with OROGEN
9 longer words begin with OROGEN.
Shorter words from the letters in OROGEN
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Common questions about OROGEN
- Is OROGEN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OROGEN, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OROGEN worth?
- OROGEN is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OROGEN mean?
- A belt of the Earth's crust that has been folded and uplifted into mountains by the collision or movement of tectonic plates.
- What letters can be added to OROGEN?
- OROGEN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of OROGEN:
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