SETON is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. SETON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SETON?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SETON is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SETON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
setonsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SETON scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SETON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 5,446.
What stands out about SETON
- The same 5 tiles also spell 5 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SETON mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicalhistorical
A length of thread, wire or other material passed through a fold of skin or an incision and left in place to keep a wound open for drainage or to encourage healing, a technique now used mainly in veterinary and equine medicine.
A seton works by keeping an artificial channel open long enough for pus or fluid to drain away instead of collecting under the skin, which surgeons once relied on for treating deep infections and abscesses in humans. Modern human medicine has mostly replaced the plain thread seton with catheters and other drains, but veterinarians still thread a seton through a horse's or a cow's wound when a persistent drainage channel is needed. The word also names a similar surgical thread used to treat certain anal fistulas, where a seton is left in place for weeks to let the tissue heal gradually around it.
How SETON is used
Now most familiar from veterinary medicine and from the specific surgical treatment of anal fistulas, rather than from everyday medical speech.
- The vet placed a seton in the horse's wound to keep it draining.
- Surgeons sometimes leave a seton in place for weeks after treating a fistula.
- The old textbook described inserting a seton to drain a deep abscess.
- A loose seton allowed the infected tissue to heal from the inside out.
- The nurse checked that the seton had not slipped out of position.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SETON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SETON
The 5 tiles of SETON in a different order — 5 found.
Words starting with SETON
1 longer words begin with SETON.
Shorter words from the letters in SETON
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Common questions about SETON
- Is SETON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SETON, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SETON worth?
- SETON is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SETON mean?
- A length of thread, wire or other material passed through a fold of skin or an incision and left in place to keep a wound open for drainage or to encourage healing, a technique now used mainly in veterinary and equine medicine.
- What letters can be added to SETON?
- SETON takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SETON:
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