SOLION is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. SOLION is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SOLION?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SOLION is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SOLION
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
solionsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SOLION scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SOLION, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 49,275.
What does SOLION mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
An early type of electrochemical device that detects or amplifies a signal by controlling the flow of ions through a solution.
Solion is a coined term that blends solution and ion, naming a device developed in the 1950s that used the movement of ions in a liquid electrolyte to detect or amplify weak, low-frequency signals. It briefly interested engineers looking for alternatives to vacuum tubes, particularly for sensing very slow changes that ordinary electronic amplifiers handled poorly. Solid-state transistors and integrated circuits soon proved cheaper and more reliable, so the solion remained a specialised, short-lived technology rather than a lasting part of mainstream electronics.
How SOLION is used
A specialist term from mid-twentieth-century electronics, now largely of historical interest.
- The prototype amplifier used a solion instead of a vacuum tube.
- Engineers explored the solion as a low-frequency detector.
- A solion relies on ion movement rather than electron flow in a wire.
- The laboratory report compared the solion with early transistors.
- Few devices still use a solion, since solid-state electronics replaced it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SOLION and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SOLION
1 longer words begin with SOLION.
Shorter words from the letters in SOLION
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Common questions about SOLION
- Is SOLION valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SOLION, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SOLION worth?
- SOLION is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SOLION mean?
- An early type of electrochemical device that detects or amplifies a signal by controlling the flow of ions through a solution.
- What letters can be added to SOLION?
- SOLION takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SOLION:
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