POLARON is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. POLARON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept POLARON?
| 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: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful POLARON is to know. It scores 9 from 7 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POLARON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
polaronsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How POLARON scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in POLARON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 220,563.
What does POLARON mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A quasiparticle in a crystal made up of an electron together with the distortion it causes in the surrounding lattice.
Physicists use the word polaron when an electron moving through a solid drags a cloud of distortion along with it, so the pair behaves like a single heavier object. It is a concept of solid-state physics.
How POLARON is used
Polaron is a term of solid-state physics.
- The paper described how a polaron moves through the crystal.
- A polaron is heavier than a free electron in the same material.
- The lecture on the polaron used a simple lattice drawing.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POLARON and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with POLARON
1 longer words begin with POLARON.
Shorter words from the letters in POLARON
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Common questions about POLARON
- Is POLARON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POLARON, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POLARON worth?
- POLARON is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POLARON mean?
- A quasiparticle in a crystal made up of an electron together with the distortion it causes in the surrounding lattice.
- What letters can be added to POLARON?
- POLARON takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of POLARON:
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