RADIUS is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. RADIUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RADIUS?
| 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: 25 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RADIUS is to know. It scores 7 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RADIUS
No single letter turns RADIUS into another word.
How RADIUS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in RADIUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,325.
What does RADIUS mean in Scrabble?
noun
A straight line, or its length, extending from the center of a circle or sphere to its outer edge.
Mathematicians define the radius as half of a circle's diameter, and doubling it gives the full width of the circle from one side to the other through the center. City planners and safety officials also use radius loosely to mean the whole area within a certain distance of a point, as when evacuating everyone within a mile radius of a hazard. In anatomy, the same word names one of the two long bones of the forearm, the shorter and thicker of the pair, which rotates around its neighbor to turn the palm up or down. Despite these different fields, every sense of radius keeps the underlying picture of a measured distance stretching outward from a fixed center.
How RADIUS is used
A common noun in geometry and everyday distance measurement, and also the technical name of a forearm bone in anatomy.
- The circle's radius measured exactly ten centimeters.
- Officials evacuated everyone within a five-mile radius of the plant.
- The fall left a hairline fracture in his radius.
- Doubling the radius quadruples the area of a circle.
- The garden was planted within a short radius of the old well.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RADIUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with RADIUS
3 longer words begin with RADIUS.
Shorter words from the letters in RADIUS
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Common questions about RADIUS
- Is RADIUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RADIUS, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RADIUS worth?
- RADIUS is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RADIUS mean?
- A straight line, or its length, extending from the center of a circle or sphere to its outer edge.
- What letters can be added to RADIUS?
- No single letter can be added to RADIUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of RADIUS:
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