VITRO is valid in Collins, not in North America — 8 points
It depends on the list you play by. VITRO is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 8 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept VITRO?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VITRO is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VITRO
No single letter turns VITRO into another word.
How VITRO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in VITRO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What does VITRO mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
Glass, in the Latin phrase used for work done outside a living body.
Vitro belongs to one phrase and never leaves it: in vitro, literally in glass, from the tubes and dishes such work was first done in. It stands against in vivo, and the pair mark the largest fault line in biology — a result obtained in vitro is real and may still mean nothing at all inside an animal.
How VITRO is used
Used only in the phrase in vitro. The opposite phrase is in vivo.
- The compound works in vitro and has never been tested further.
- In vitro results are the cheapest kind and the least conclusive.
- The paper reports in vitro work only, and says so.
- What holds in vitro often fails in a living animal.
- The phrase in vitro means in glass and nothing more.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VITRO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words with VITRO inside
2 words contain VITRO in the middle. Words that start with VITRO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in VITRO
Common questions about VITRO
- Is VITRO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts VITRO, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is VITRO worth?
- VITRO is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VITRO mean?
- Glass, in the Latin phrase used for work done outside a living body.
- What letters can be added to VITRO?
- No single letter can be added to VITRO to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of VITRO:
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