PYRAN is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. PYRAN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PYRAN?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PYRAN is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PYRAN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
pyransChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PYRAN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PYRAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does PYRAN mean in Scrabble?
noun
chemistry
A six-membered ring compound containing one oxygen atom and five carbon atoms, used as the parent structure for a wide family of sugars and other natural compounds.
A pyran is built from five carbon atoms and one oxygen atom joined into a single ring, with one double bond somewhere in that ring giving the two related forms called 2H-pyran and 4H-pyran. Chemists use the pyran ring as the basic skeleton for describing many natural sugars, since glucose and several other common sugars close into a six-membered ring of exactly this shape once drawn in their circular form. The oxygen in the ring behaves differently from the oxygen in a straight-chain ether, which makes pyran derivatives useful starting points for building more complex molecules. Beyond sugars, pyran rings turn up in a range of natural pigments, flavour compounds and synthetic dyes.
How PYRAN is used
Technical; the word belongs to organic chemistry and appears mainly in descriptions of ring structures and sugar chemistry.
- The chemist explained that glucose forms a pyran ring once it closes into its circular shape.
- Several natural pigments are built around a pyran core.
- The textbook diagram numbered the six atoms of the pyran ring in order.
- A pyran derivative served as the starting material for the synthesis.
- Chemists distinguish between two isomeric forms of pyran according to where the double bond sits.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PYRAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PYRAN
8 longer words begin with PYRAN.
Shorter words from the letters in PYRAN
Common questions about PYRAN
- Is PYRAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PYRAN, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PYRAN worth?
- PYRAN is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PYRAN mean?
- A six-membered ring compound containing one oxygen atom and five carbon atoms, used as the parent structure for a wide family of sugars and other natural compounds.
- What letters can be added to PYRAN?
- PYRAN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PYRAN:
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