PILUS is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. PILUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PILUS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 24 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PILUS is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PILUS
No single letter turns PILUS into another word.
How PILUS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PILUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does PILUS mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A single hair, or a hair-like structure, especially the thread-like appendage on the surface of a bacterium.
Biologists borrowed pilus straight from Latin, where it simply means hair, and the word now covers both an ordinary strand of mammalian hair in technical writing and the much smaller thread-like structures bacteria grow on their outer surface. A bacterial pilus helps the cell attach to surfaces or to other bacteria, and one specialised type, the sex pilus, lets bacteria pass genetic material between them during conjugation. The plural form appears constantly in microbiology whenever more than one such structure is being discussed.
How PILUS is used
A technical term, used mainly in biology and microbiology rather than in everyday speech.
- Under the microscope, a single pilus extended from the bacterium's surface.
- The paper described how a sex pilus transfers genetic material between cells.
- Researchers counted the pilus structures on each sample.
- A damaged pilus can no longer help the bacterium attach to tissue.
- The lecture explained how a pilus differs from a flagellum.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PILUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PILUS
The 5 tiles of PILUS in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in PILUS
Common questions about PILUS
- Is PILUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PILUS, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PILUS worth?
- PILUS is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PILUS mean?
- A single hair, or a hair-like structure, especially the thread-like appendage on the surface of a bacterium.
- What letters can be added to PILUS?
- No single letter can be added to PILUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PILUS:
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