TRISTEARIN is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. TRISTEARIN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TRISTEARIN?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TRISTEARIN is to know. It scores 10 from 10 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TRISTEARIN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
tristearinsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TRISTEARIN scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in TRISTEARIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 2 | 6 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so TRISTEARIN has to be built on the board across turns.
What does TRISTEARIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
chemistry
A crystalline fat formed from glycerol and three molecules of stearic acid, found in hard animal and vegetable fats.
Chemists treat tristearin as the pure triglyceride behind the stearin in tallow and cocoa butter. It melts at a high temperature, which explains why such fats are solid.
How TRISTEARIN is used
Tristearin is a chemistry term, rare outside textbooks.
- Pure tristearin forms white waxy crystals.
- The lab measured the melting point of tristearin.
- Hard fats owe their firmness partly to tristearin.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TRISTEARIN and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TRISTEARIN
1 longer words begin with TRISTEARIN.
Shorter words from the letters in TRISTEARIN
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Common questions about TRISTEARIN
- Is TRISTEARIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TRISTEARIN, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TRISTEARIN worth?
- TRISTEARIN is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TRISTEARIN mean?
- A crystalline fat formed from glycerol and three molecules of stearic acid, found in hard animal and vegetable fats.
- What letters can be added to TRISTEARIN?
- TRISTEARIN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of TRISTEARIN:
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