PYRANOID is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. PYRANOID is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PYRANOID?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PYRANOID is to know. It scores 14 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PYRANOID
No single letter turns PYRANOID into another word.
How PYRANOID scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in PYRANOID, 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 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so PYRANOID has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about PYRANOID
- All 8 letters of PYRANOID are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does PYRANOID mean in Scrabble?
adjective
chemistrytechnical
Having a ring structure like that of pyran, a six-membered ring containing one oxygen atom.
Chemists describe a sugar as pyranoid when its molecule closes into a six-membered ring, as glucose usually does in water. The contrasting form is the five-membered furanoid ring.
How PYRANOID is used
Appears in organic chemistry and biochemistry texts.
- Glucose exists mainly in a pyranoid form in solution.
- The pyranoid ring has one oxygen atom among its six members.
- The paper compares pyranoid and furanoid sugars.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PYRANOID and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in PYRANOID
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Common questions about PYRANOID
- Is PYRANOID valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PYRANOID, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PYRANOID worth?
- PYRANOID is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PYRANOID mean?
- Having a ring structure like that of pyran, a six-membered ring containing one oxygen atom.
- What letters can be added to PYRANOID?
- No single letter can be added to PYRANOID to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of PYRANOID:
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