ORTHONORMAL is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. ORTHONORMAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ORTHONORMAL?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ORTHONORMAL is to know. It scores 16 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ORTHONORMAL
No single letter turns ORTHONORMAL into another word.
How ORTHONORMAL scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in ORTHONORMAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 3 | 8 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ORTHONORMAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ORTHONORMAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Describing vectors or functions that are mutually perpendicular and each of unit length.
An orthonormal basis makes calculations simple, because coordinates can be read off with plain dot products. Mathematicians build an orthonormal set from any basis by a standard step-by-step method.
How ORTHONORMAL is used
Used in linear algebra and physics for bases whose members are perpendicular and have length one.
- The three axes form an orthonormal basis of space.
- She converted the vectors into an orthonormal set.
- An orthonormal matrix preserves lengths and angles.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ORTHONORMAL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ORTHONORMAL
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Common questions about ORTHONORMAL
- Is ORTHONORMAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ORTHONORMAL, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ORTHONORMAL worth?
- ORTHONORMAL is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ORTHONORMAL mean?
- Describing vectors or functions that are mutually perpendicular and each of unit length.
- What letters can be added to ORTHONORMAL?
- No single letter can be added to ORTHONORMAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of ORTHONORMAL:
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