PANGENESIS is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. PANGENESIS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PANGENESIS?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PANGENESIS is to know. It scores 13 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PANGENESIS
No single letter turns PANGENESIS into another word.
How PANGENESIS scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in PANGENESIS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so PANGENESIS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does PANGENESIS mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A theory put forward by Darwin that every cell of the body sheds tiny particles which gather in the reproductive cells to pass on inherited traits.
The idea of pangenesis was Darwin's attempt to explain heredity before genes were known. Later experiments showed that the proposed particles do not exist, so the theory survives only as a chapter in the history of biology.
How PANGENESIS is used
Used in the history of science, where pangenesis is mentioned as an early and mistaken theory of heredity.
- Darwin offered pangenesis as a way to explain inheritance.
- Pangenesis was tested and rejected by later biologists.
- The lecture compared pangenesis with modern genetics.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PANGENESIS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in PANGENESIS
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Common questions about PANGENESIS
- Is PANGENESIS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PANGENESIS, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PANGENESIS worth?
- PANGENESIS is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PANGENESIS mean?
- A theory put forward by Darwin that every cell of the body sheds tiny particles which gather in the reproductive cells to pass on inherited traits.
- What letters can be added to PANGENESIS?
- No single letter can be added to PANGENESIS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of PANGENESIS:
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