STYLOPS is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. STYLOPS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept STYLOPS?
| 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: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful STYLOPS is to know. It scores 12 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for STYLOPS
No single letter turns STYLOPS into another word.
How STYLOPS scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in STYLOPS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,474 thousand.
What stands out about STYLOPS
- STYLOPS gets by on a single vowel across 7 letters.
- STYLOPS begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does STYLOPS mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A tiny insect that lives as a parasite inside other insects such as bees and wasps.
In a stylops the males have wings while the females stay grub-like inside the host. Naturalists use the name for the genus and sometimes for the whole group of related parasites.
How STYLOPS is used
Stylops is mainly a term for entomologists and careful readers of natural history.
- A stylops was found inside the body of the mining bee.
- The male stylops lives only a short time after leaving the host.
- Collectors can recognise a bee infected with a stylops by its swollen abdomen.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of STYLOPS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in STYLOPS
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Common questions about STYLOPS
- Is STYLOPS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts STYLOPS, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is STYLOPS worth?
- STYLOPS is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does STYLOPS mean?
- A tiny insect that lives as a parasite inside other insects such as bees and wasps.
- What letters can be added to STYLOPS?
- No single letter can be added to STYLOPS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of STYLOPS:
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