TAXOL is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. TAXOL 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 TAXOL?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TAXOL is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TAXOL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
taxolsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TAXOL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TAXOL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does TAXOL mean in Scrabble?
noun
chemistrymedical
A complex chemical compound originally extracted from the bark of the Pacific yew tree, used as a drug to treat certain cancers by stopping cell division.
Researchers first isolated taxol from yew bark in the early 1970s and found that it worked by locking the internal skeleton of a cell in place, so that a cancer cell already dividing cannot finish splitting into two. Because so much bark was needed to obtain a useful amount, chemists later worked out ways to produce the compound from a more abundant part of the tree and eventually to synthesize it in the laboratory. The medicine built around taxol is now usually sold under the generic name paclitaxel, but taxol remains the name most often used for the natural compound itself in scientific writing. Its discovery is often cited as a major example of a useful medicine found by studying plants.
How TAXOL is used
A specialist word from chemistry and medicine, used mainly in scientific and clinical writing rather than everyday speech.
- The lab measured how much taxol a single yew tree could yield.
- Doctors explained that the taxol in the treatment would target rapidly dividing cells.
- Early supplies of taxol were limited by the slow growth of yew trees.
- The paper described a new way to synthesize taxol without harming wild yews.
- Nurses monitored the patient closely during the taxol infusion.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TAXOL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TAXOL
1 longer words begin with TAXOL.
Shorter words from the letters in TAXOL
Common questions about TAXOL
- Is TAXOL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TAXOL, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TAXOL worth?
- TAXOL is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TAXOL mean?
- A complex chemical compound originally extracted from the bark of the Pacific yew tree, used as a drug to treat certain cancers by stopping cell division.
- What letters can be added to TAXOL?
- TAXOL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TAXOL:
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