PALLADOUS is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. PALLADOUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PALLADOUS?
| 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: 25 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PALLADOUS is to know. It scores 12 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PALLADOUS
No single letter turns PALLADOUS into another word.
How PALLADOUS scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in PALLADOUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so PALLADOUS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does PALLADOUS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technicalchemistry
Containing palladium in its lower valence, with the metal carrying a charge of two.
Chemists use palladous in the names of salts such as palladous chloride, to tell them apart from compounds where the metal is more highly charged. The modern naming style prefers a Roman numeral, so palladous is mostly met in older books.
How PALLADOUS is used
An old chemical term, seen in older textbooks and papers on palladium compounds.
- The solution contained palladous chloride dissolved in acid.
- In the old notation, a palladous salt had the metal in its lower state.
- The textbook listed several palladous compounds with their colours.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PALLADOUS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in PALLADOUS
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Common questions about PALLADOUS
- Is PALLADOUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PALLADOUS, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PALLADOUS worth?
- PALLADOUS is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PALLADOUS mean?
- Containing palladium in its lower valence, with the metal carrying a charge of two.
- What letters can be added to PALLADOUS?
- No single letter can be added to PALLADOUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of PALLADOUS:
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