PLIOTRON is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. PLIOTRON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PLIOTRON?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PLIOTRON is to know. It scores 10 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PLIOTRON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
pliotronsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PLIOTRON scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in PLIOTRON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so PLIOTRON has to be built on the board across turns.
What does PLIOTRON mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A high-vacuum electron tube with one or more grids placed between its electrodes.
The pliotron belongs to the early era of radio and electronics, when engineers experimented with grids to control current. A pliotron is mostly met in old technical writing and in word lists rather than in everyday speech.
How PLIOTRON is used
The word pliotron appears in historical electronics texts about vacuum tubes.
- The laboratory kept a glass pliotron on a shelf as a relic of early radio.
- An engineer described how the pliotron amplified a weak signal.
- Each pliotron in the old transmitter glowed faintly orange.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PLIOTRON and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PLIOTRON
1 longer words begin with PLIOTRON.
Shorter words from the letters in PLIOTRON
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Common questions about PLIOTRON
- Is PLIOTRON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PLIOTRON, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PLIOTRON worth?
- PLIOTRON is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PLIOTRON mean?
- A high-vacuum electron tube with one or more grids placed between its electrodes.
- What letters can be added to PLIOTRON?
- PLIOTRON takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of PLIOTRON:
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