PROTYL is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. PROTYL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PROTYL?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PROTYL is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PROTYL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PROTYL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PROTYL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 258,692.
What stands out about PROTYL
- PROTYL gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does PROTYL mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A supposed primitive substance from which all the chemical elements were thought to have been built up.
Nineteenth-century chemists, struck by how regular the atomic weights seemed, imagined that one simple stuff lay behind every element, and protyl was the name given to it. The idea was close to the hope that hydrogen might be the common building block. Modern atomic theory replaced protyl with protons, neutrons and electrons, so the word now belongs to the history of science.
How PROTYL is used
Historical; found in older chemistry and in discussions of how atomic theory developed.
- The lecturer described protyl as a dream of unity among the elements.
- Crookes argued for protyl as the source of all matter.
- No experiment ever revealed protyl in a flask.
- Protyl faded from textbooks once atoms were taken apart.
- He compared the old idea of protyl with the modern quark.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PROTYL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PROTYL
The 6 tiles of PROTYL in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with PROTYL
3 longer words begin with PROTYL.
Shorter words from the letters in PROTYL
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Common questions about PROTYL
- Is PROTYL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PROTYL, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PROTYL worth?
- PROTYL is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PROTYL mean?
- A supposed primitive substance from which all the chemical elements were thought to have been built up.
- What letters can be added to PROTYL?
- PROTYL takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PROTYL:
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