PORISM is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. PORISM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PORISM?
| 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 PORISM is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PORISM
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
porismsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PORISM scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PORISM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 172,461.
What stands out about PORISM
- The same 6 tiles also spell 2 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 PORISM mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
In Greek geometry, a proposition stating that under certain conditions a problem has endlessly many solutions, or none at all.
Euclid is said to have written a lost work on porisms, and later mathematicians spent centuries trying to reconstruct what they were. A well-known modern example is the porism of Poncelet, where one closed chain of lines between two circles forces an endless supply of others. In an older, looser sense the word also meant a corollary, a result that follows almost at once from something already proved.
How PORISM is used
Rare and technical; found in the history of mathematics and in geometry.
- The lost book of Euclid on the porism puzzled scholars for centuries.
- The porism holds only when the two circles are placed in a special way.
- He proved the porism by drawing a single auxiliary line.
- A historian wrote an article on the first known porism in geometry.
- Each porism in the lecture was illustrated with a diagram.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PORISM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PORISM
The 6 tiles of PORISM in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with PORISM
3 longer words begin with PORISM.
Shorter words from the letters in PORISM
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Common questions about PORISM
- Is PORISM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PORISM, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PORISM worth?
- PORISM is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PORISM mean?
- In Greek geometry, a proposition stating that under certain conditions a problem has endlessly many solutions, or none at all.
- What letters can be added to PORISM?
- PORISM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PORISM:
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