PRION is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. PRION 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 PRION?
| 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 PRION 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 PRION
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
prionsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PRION scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PRION, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What stands out about PRION
- 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 PRION mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
An abnormally folded protein that can trigger other normal proteins to misfold in the same way, causing progressive, incurable brain diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
Unlike a virus or bacterium, a prion carries no genetic material of its own, yet it can still spread disease by forcing healthy proteins in the brain to fold into its own misshapen, harmful form, setting off a slow chain reaction that damages nerve tissue over months or years. This unusual mechanism explains why prion diseases can appear inherited, spread through infection, or arise with no clear cause at all, depending on how the misfolding first begins in a particular patient. Prions are also strikingly hard to destroy, since normal sterilising heat and chemicals that kill bacteria and viruses often fail to break down their tough, folded structure. The word itself was coined from proteinaceous infectious particle, a name chosen to stress that a prion is protein alone, without the nucleic acid every other known infectious agent carries.
How PRION is used
A specialist term from medicine and biochemistry, met mainly in writing about brain disease and infectious protein research.
- Scientists identified a misfolded prion as the cause of the cattle disease.
- A prion can convert healthy proteins in the brain into copies of itself.
- Standard sterilisation methods often fail to destroy a prion completely.
- The patient's symptoms matched those of a rare prion disease.
- Researchers study how a single prion can trigger disease years after exposure.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PRION and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PRION
The 5 tiles of PRION in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with PRION
1 longer words begin with PRION.
Words with PRION inside
2 words contain PRION in the middle. Words that start with PRION are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PRION
Common questions about PRION
- Is PRION valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PRION, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PRION worth?
- PRION is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PRION mean?
- An abnormally folded protein that can trigger other normal proteins to misfold in the same way, causing progressive, incurable brain diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
- What letters can be added to PRION?
- PRION takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PRION:
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