STENOHALINE is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. STENOHALINE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept STENOHALINE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful STENOHALINE is to know. It scores 14 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for STENOHALINE
No single letter turns STENOHALINE into another word.
How STENOHALINE scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in STENOHALINE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so STENOHALINE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does STENOHALINE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technicalzoology
Describing a water-dwelling creature that can survive only within a narrow range of salt concentration.
A stenohaline fish dies quickly if moved from the sea to a river, or the other way round. It is the opposite of a creature that copes with big swings in saltiness.
How STENOHALINE is used
Stenohaline appears in marine biology and fish-keeping texts, almost always describing species.
- Most coral reef fish are stenohaline and cannot cope with diluted water.
- A stenohaline species needs stable salinity in the aquarium.
- The biologist explained why a stenohaline animal rarely enters an estuary.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of STENOHALINE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in STENOHALINE
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Common questions about STENOHALINE
- Is STENOHALINE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts STENOHALINE, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is STENOHALINE worth?
- STENOHALINE is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does STENOHALINE mean?
- Describing a water-dwelling creature that can survive only within a narrow range of salt concentration.
- What letters can be added to STENOHALINE?
- No single letter can be added to STENOHALINE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of STENOHALINE:
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