POLLINIUM is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. POLLINIUM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept POLLINIUM?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful POLLINIUM is to know. It scores 13 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POLLINIUM
No single letter turns POLLINIUM into another word.
How POLLINIUM scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in POLLINIUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so POLLINIUM has to be built on the board across turns.
What does POLLINIUM mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A sticky, compact lump of pollen grains that is moved as one unit, typical of orchids and milkweeds.
Instead of loose dust, a flower with a pollinium hands over its whole pollen load at once, glued to an insect that visits it. This is why orchids can be fertilised so reliably by only a few kinds of visitor.
How POLLINIUM is used
A specialist botanical term; the plural is pollinia, and the word appears in texts on orchid pollination.
- The bee left the bloom with a yellow pollinium stuck to its head.
- Under the lens, each pollinium looked like a tiny waxy club.
- The student sketched the pollinium of the orchid for her report.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POLLINIUM and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in POLLINIUM
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Common questions about POLLINIUM
- Is POLLINIUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POLLINIUM, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POLLINIUM worth?
- POLLINIUM is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POLLINIUM mean?
- A sticky, compact lump of pollen grains that is moved as one unit, typical of orchids and milkweeds.
- What letters can be added to POLLINIUM?
- No single letter can be added to POLLINIUM to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of POLLINIUM:
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