PORIN is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. PORIN 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 PORIN?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PORIN is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PORIN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PORIN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PORIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What stands out about PORIN
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does PORIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A protein that forms a channel through a cell membrane, allowing small molecules and ions to pass across it.
A porin sits embedded in the outer membrane of a bacterium, or in the membrane of a mitochondrion or chloroplast, where it folds into a barrel shape wide enough for water, ions and small nutrients to pass through by diffusion rather than by active transport. Because a porin needs no extra energy to move molecules, cells use it as a passive gateway that still controls size by the width of its central channel. Biologists study porins closely in bacteria such as Escherichia coli, since the same channels that let nutrients in can also let antibiotics through, making porin loss one route by which bacteria become drug-resistant. The general term covers many related proteins, so a single cell membrane usually carries several distinct porins side by side, each tuned to a slightly different range of molecules.
How PORIN is used
A technical term from cell biology and microbiology, used mainly in scientific writing about membranes and bacterial resistance.
- Researchers found that a mutated porin let far less penicillin into the bacterium.
- Each porin forms a narrow channel just wide enough for water and small ions.
- The outer membrane of the bacterium was studded with thousands of copies of the same porin.
- Losing a working porin can make a bacterial strain harder to treat with antibiotics.
- Mitochondria carry their own type of porin in the outer membrane surrounding them.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PORIN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PORIN
The 5 tiles of PORIN in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with PORIN
6 longer words begin with PORIN.
Words ending in PORIN
4 words end in PORIN. Useful as a back hook: play PORIN onto a word already on the board.
Words with PORIN inside
10 words contain PORIN in the middle. Words that start with PORIN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PORIN
Common questions about PORIN
- Is PORIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PORIN, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PORIN worth?
- PORIN is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PORIN mean?
- A protein that forms a channel through a cell membrane, allowing small molecules and ions to pass across it.
- What letters can be added to PORIN?
- PORIN takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PORIN:
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