PARHELION is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. PARHELION is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PARHELION?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PARHELION is to know. It scores 14 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PARHELION
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
parhelionsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PARHELION scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in PARHELION, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so PARHELION has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about PARHELION
- All 9 letters of PARHELION are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does PARHELION mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A bright spot in the sky on either side of the sun, formed when sunlight is refracted by ice crystals in the high atmosphere.
A parhelion is the optical effect people often call a mock sun, and it may be tinged with the colours of a rainbow. Several can appear along a halo around the sun in cold, icy air. Observers of weather and sky photographers value the phenomenon for its rarity.
How PARHELION is used
Used in meteorology and astronomy when describing halo phenomena around the sun.
- A bright parhelion glowed beside the low winter sun.
- The photographer waited hours to capture a parhelion over the frozen lake.
- Ice crystals in thin cloud can produce a parhelion on each side of the sun.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PARHELION and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PARHELION
1 longer words begin with PARHELION.
Shorter words from the letters in PARHELION
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Common questions about PARHELION
- Is PARHELION valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PARHELION, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PARHELION worth?
- PARHELION is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PARHELION mean?
- A bright spot in the sky on either side of the sun, formed when sunlight is refracted by ice crystals in the high atmosphere.
- What letters can be added to PARHELION?
- PARHELION takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of PARHELION:
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