POLIO is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. POLIO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept POLIO?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful POLIO is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POLIO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
poliosChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How POLIO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in POLIO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 37,345.
What does POLIO mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
An infectious viral disease that can attack the nervous system and cause paralysis, more fully called poliomyelitis.
Polio spreads mainly through contaminated water and food, and while most infections pass with mild symptoms or none at all, the virus can sometimes damage nerve cells controlling muscles, leaving a person permanently paralysed, often in the legs. Before vaccines became widespread in the 1950s, polio epidemics closed swimming pools and schools every summer and left thousands of children needing braces, crutches or an iron lung to breathe. Mass vaccination campaigns have since pushed the disease to the edge of extinction, with only a handful of countries still reporting cases. The short form polio is now the everyday name for the disease; poliomyelitis survives mainly in medical writing.
How POLIO is used
The everyday medical term; poliomyelitis is the fuller, more formal name used mainly in clinical writing.
- Her grandmother survived polio as a child but walked with a limp ever after.
- The vaccine campaign aimed to wipe out polio worldwide.
- He remembered the iron lungs used to treat severe polio cases.
- Polio cases have dropped by more than ninety-nine percent since 1988.
- Doctors watched closely for the early signs of polio during the outbreak.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POLIO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with POLIO
8 longer words begin with POLIO.
Shorter words from the letters in POLIO
Common questions about POLIO
- Is POLIO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POLIO, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POLIO worth?
- POLIO is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POLIO mean?
- An infectious viral disease that can attack the nervous system and cause paralysis, more fully called poliomyelitis.
- What letters can be added to POLIO?
- POLIO takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of POLIO:
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