PISTIL is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PISTIL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PISTIL?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PISTIL is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PISTIL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
pistilsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PISTIL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PISTIL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 172,461.
What does PISTIL mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
The female reproductive part of a flower, made up of the stigma, style, and ovary.
The pistil sits at the centre of most flowers and is the part that receives pollen grains on its sticky stigma; the pollen then travels down the style to the ovary at the base, where fertilisation produces seeds. A flower can have one pistil or several grouped together, depending on the plant. Because the pistil is the seed-producing organ, gardeners and botanists look at it to identify how a particular plant reproduces.
How PISTIL is used
A standard term in botany classes and gardening guides whenever the internal structure of a flower is described.
- Pull back the petals gently and you can see the pistil rising from the flower's centre.
- Bees brush against the pistil while feeding on nectar, carrying pollen with them.
- The pistil of a lily is long and easy to spot against the pale petals.
- Botany students learned to sketch the pistil, stamen, and petals of the same flower.
- Without a working pistil, the flower cannot form seeds after pollination.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PISTIL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PISTIL
6 longer words begin with PISTIL.
Shorter words from the letters in PISTIL
Common questions about PISTIL
- Is PISTIL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PISTIL, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PISTIL worth?
- PISTIL is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PISTIL mean?
- The female reproductive part of a flower, made up of the stigma, style, and ovary.
- What letters can be added to PISTIL?
- PISTIL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PISTIL:
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