PSILOSIS is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. PSILOSIS 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 PSILOSIS?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PSILOSIS is to know. It scores 10 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PSILOSIS
No single letter turns PSILOSIS into another word.
How PSILOSIS scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in PSILOSIS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| s | 3 | 4 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so PSILOSIS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does PSILOSIS mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
Loss of hair; in linguistics, the dropping of the rough breathing sound in Greek; in medicine, an old name for sprue.
Psilosis is a rare word with three separate uses, so the field decides everything. A classicist means the silent h of Ionic Greek, a physician of the past meant a wasting bowel illness, and a general reader may only meet it as baldness.
How PSILOSIS is used
Confined to specialist writing in linguistics and older medicine.
- Psilosis in Ionic Greek removed the initial h sound.
- The textbook listed psilosis among tropical bowel disorders.
- The chart noted psilosis of the scalp.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PSILOSIS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in PSILOSIS
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Common questions about PSILOSIS
- Is PSILOSIS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PSILOSIS, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PSILOSIS worth?
- PSILOSIS is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PSILOSIS mean?
- Loss of hair; in linguistics, the dropping of the rough breathing sound in Greek; in medicine, an old name for sprue.
- What letters can be added to PSILOSIS?
- No single letter can be added to PSILOSIS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of PSILOSIS:
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