STEREOSCOPY is a valid Scrabble word — 18 points
Yes. STEREOSCOPY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept STEREOSCOPY?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful STEREOSCOPY is to know. It scores 18 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for STEREOSCOPY
No single letter turns STEREOSCOPY into another word.
How STEREOSCOPY scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in STEREOSCOPY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so STEREOSCOPY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does STEREOSCOPY mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The technique of combining two slightly different images, one for each eye, to create an impression of depth.
Stereoscopy underlies old parlour viewers, three-dimensional films and virtual reality headsets. The brain fuses the paired pictures and reads their small differences as distance. The art of making and viewing such images has been popular since the Victorian era.
How STEREOSCOPY is used
Stereoscopy is used in photography, cinema, vision science and virtual reality.
- Victorian stereoscopy turned family portraits into three-dimensional views.
- Stereoscopy depends on the small gap between the two eyes.
- The exhibition explained stereoscopy with a pair of vintage viewers.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of STEREOSCOPY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
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Common questions about STEREOSCOPY
- Is STEREOSCOPY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts STEREOSCOPY, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is STEREOSCOPY worth?
- STEREOSCOPY is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does STEREOSCOPY mean?
- The technique of combining two slightly different images, one for each eye, to create an impression of depth.
- What letters can be added to STEREOSCOPY?
- No single letter can be added to STEREOSCOPY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of STEREOSCOPY:
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