TELEGONY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. TELEGONY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TELEGONY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TELEGONY is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TELEGONY
No single letter turns TELEGONY into another word.
How TELEGONY scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in TELEGONY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so TELEGONY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does TELEGONY mean in Scrabble?
noun
rare
The discredited belief that a female's earlier mate can influence the offspring she has later with a different male.
Breeders once feared that a pedigree female spoiled by one wrong mating would pass the traits on in later litters. Modern genetics finds no support for telegony, and the idea survives mainly as a historical curiosity.
How TELEGONY is used
Found in histories of animal breeding and biology, usually when discussing old, rejected theories of heredity.
- Nineteenth-century breeders widely believed in telegony.
- The textbook lists telegony among disproved theories of inheritance.
- Darwin discussed an apparent case of telegony in horses.
- No experiment has ever confirmed telegony.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TELEGONY and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in TELEGONY
Showing 40 of 141. See all in the Word Finder
Common questions about TELEGONY
- Is TELEGONY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TELEGONY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TELEGONY worth?
- TELEGONY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TELEGONY mean?
- The discredited belief that a female's earlier mate can influence the offspring she has later with a different male.
- What letters can be added to TELEGONY?
- No single letter can be added to TELEGONY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of TELEGONY:
Open TELEGONY in the Word Finder