OVARIECTOMY is a valid Scrabble word — 21 points
Yes. OVARIECTOMY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 21 points in Scrabble and 23 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OVARIECTOMY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OVARIECTOMY is to know. It scores 21 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OVARIECTOMY
No single letter turns OVARIECTOMY into another word.
How OVARIECTOMY scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in OVARIECTOMY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 2 | 8 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so OVARIECTOMY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does OVARIECTOMY mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
Surgical removal of one or both ovaries, as in spaying an animal.
Ovariectomy is performed to treat disease in humans and is also a routine operation in veterinary medicine, where it is used to spay animals. The term is often interchangeable with oophorectomy.
How OVARIECTOMY is used
A medical and veterinary term used in clinical and research settings.
- The vet recommended an ovariectomy for the young dog.
- Researchers performed an ovariectomy on the mice to study bone loss.
- After the ovariectomy, the patient was given hormone therapy.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OVARIECTOMY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in OVARIECTOMY
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Common questions about OVARIECTOMY
- Is OVARIECTOMY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OVARIECTOMY, where it scores 23 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OVARIECTOMY worth?
- OVARIECTOMY is worth 21 points in Scrabble and 23 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OVARIECTOMY mean?
- Surgical removal of one or both ovaries, as in spaying an animal.
- What letters can be added to OVARIECTOMY?
- No single letter can be added to OVARIECTOMY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of OVARIECTOMY:
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