PROLAN is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PROLAN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PROLAN?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PROLAN is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PROLAN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
prolansChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PROLAN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PROLAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 57,487.
What does PROLAN mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicalhistorical
A gonadotropic hormone found in the urine of pregnant women, formerly used as the basis of an early pregnancy test.
Doctors in the early twentieth century identified prolan as a hormone appearing in urine during pregnancy and used its presence, detected by injecting the urine into test animals, to confirm whether a woman was pregnant before more modern tests existed. The term later gave way to the more precise name human chorionic gonadotropin, or hCG, which is now the standard term in medicine. Prolan survives mainly in older medical writing and the history of reproductive science rather than in current clinical practice. It illustrates how a single hormone can carry several names as understanding of its chemistry improved over time.
How PROLAN is used
Now mostly historical, appearing in older medical texts rather than in current clinical language.
- Early textbooks described prolan as the hormone behind the pregnancy test.
- Researchers measured prolan levels in urine samples.
- The test relied on injecting prolan into a laboratory animal.
- Prolan was later identified as a form of gonadotropin.
- Historians of medicine still refer to the prolan-based test.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PROLAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PROLAN
1 longer words begin with PROLAN.
Shorter words from the letters in PROLAN
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Common questions about PROLAN
- Is PROLAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PROLAN, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PROLAN worth?
- PROLAN is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PROLAN mean?
- A gonadotropic hormone found in the urine of pregnant women, formerly used as the basis of an early pregnancy test.
- What letters can be added to PROLAN?
- PROLAN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PROLAN:
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