RETINOSCOPY is a valid Scrabble word — 18 points
Yes. RETINOSCOPY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 20 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RETINOSCOPY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RETINOSCOPY is to know. It scores 18 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RETINOSCOPY
No single letter turns RETINOSCOPY into another word.
How RETINOSCOPY scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in RETINOSCOPY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so RETINOSCOPY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does RETINOSCOPY mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicaltechnical
An eye examination in which a beam of light is shone into the eye and the movement of the reflected glow on the retina is watched to measure how the eye focuses.
Eye specialists use retinoscopy to estimate a glasses prescription without relying on the patient's answers. That makes it especially useful for young children and for people who cannot describe what they see. A hand-held instrument called a retinoscope does the work.
How RETINOSCOPY is used
Retinoscopy is a clinical term found in optometry and ophthalmology texts rather than in everyday talk.
- The optometrist began with retinoscopy because the toddler could not read a chart.
- Retinoscopy showed that the left eye was markedly long-sighted.
- Students practise retinoscopy on each other during the practical course.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RETINOSCOPY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
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Common questions about RETINOSCOPY
- Is RETINOSCOPY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RETINOSCOPY, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RETINOSCOPY worth?
- RETINOSCOPY is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RETINOSCOPY mean?
- An eye examination in which a beam of light is shone into the eye and the movement of the reflected glow on the retina is watched to measure how the eye focuses.
- What letters can be added to RETINOSCOPY?
- No single letter can be added to RETINOSCOPY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of RETINOSCOPY:
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