TOPHUS is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. TOPHUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TOPHUS?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TOPHUS is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TOPHUS
No single letter turns TOPHUS into another word.
How TOPHUS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in TOPHUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 388,038.
What does TOPHUS mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
A hard chalky lump of uric acid crystals that forms under the skin or near a joint in people with gout.
In medicine a tophus is the visible mark of long-standing gout: uric acid crystals pile up in a knuckle, the elbow, the big toe or the rim of the ear until they form a firm nodule. The word is Latin for tufa, a porous chalky stone, and it describes how the deposit looks and feels. Its plural, tophi, is the form doctors usually write.
How TOPHUS is used
Medical term used by doctors and in clinical notes, rarely in ordinary conversation.
- The doctor pressed on the tophus beside his knuckle.
- A tophus had formed on the rim of her ear.
- Years of untreated gout left a visible tophus on his toe.
- The scan showed a large tophus near the elbow joint.
- Medication can shrink a tophus over time.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TOPHUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TOPHUS
The 6 tiles of TOPHUS in a different order — 1 found.
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Common questions about TOPHUS
- Is TOPHUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TOPHUS, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TOPHUS worth?
- TOPHUS is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TOPHUS mean?
- A hard chalky lump of uric acid crystals that forms under the skin or near a joint in people with gout.
- What letters can be added to TOPHUS?
- No single letter can be added to TOPHUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of TOPHUS:
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