TAXON is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. TAXON 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 TAXON?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TAXON is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TAXON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
taxonsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TAXON scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TAXON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What does TAXON mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A named group of one or more organisms that a classification system treats as a single unit, such as a species, genus, or family.
Biologists use the word taxon whenever they need to talk about a group in a classification without specifying its exact rank, since a taxon can sit at any level from a single species up to a whole kingdom. Two taxa are usually distinguished by the shared features their members have in common, whether physical, genetic, or behavioural. When new evidence changes how organisms are related, a taxon can be split into smaller ones or merged with another. The plural form, taxa, appears constantly in biological papers whenever more than one such group is discussed together.
How TAXON is used
A technical term from biology and taxonomy, used in scientific writing rather than in casual conversation.
- The paper proposed a new taxon within the beetle family.
- Each taxon in the chart is defined by a distinct set of features.
- Scientists disagreed about whether the fossil represented a separate taxon.
- A genus is one kind of taxon, and a species is another.
- The museum display grouped specimens by taxon rather than by size.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TAXON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TAXON
10 longer words begin with TAXON.
Words ending in TAXON
1 words end in TAXON. Useful as a back hook: play TAXON onto a word already on the board.
Words with TAXON inside
13 words contain TAXON in the middle. Words that start with TAXON are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TAXON
Common questions about TAXON
- Is TAXON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TAXON, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TAXON worth?
- TAXON is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TAXON mean?
- A named group of one or more organisms that a classification system treats as a single unit, such as a species, genus, or family.
- What letters can be added to TAXON?
- TAXON takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TAXON:
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