XRAYS is valid in Collins, not in North America — 15 points
It depends on the list you play by. XRAYS 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 15 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept XRAYS?
| 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 | Not listed |
Word power: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful XRAYS is to know. It scores 15 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for XRAYS
No single letter turns XRAYS into another word.
How XRAYS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in XRAYS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| x | 1 | 1 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does XRAYS mean in Scrabble?
verb
To photograph the inside of a thing with penetrating radiation — the form used after he, she or it.
The hyphen is dropped in this spelling, and xrays is what a keyboard produces in a hurry as well as what word lists take. The verb is younger than the noun by only a few years: within a decade of the discovery in 1895 hospitals were doing it, and the word for the picture and the word for the act had already become the same.
How XRAYS is used
Third-person singular of xray. Usually written X-ray with a hyphen in ordinary prose.
- The clinic xrays a hundred chests a week.
- He xrays the weld before signing anything off.
- Airport security xrays everything that goes on the belt.
- The vet xrays first and asks questions afterwards.
- Nobody xrays a painting without a good reason.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of XRAYS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in XRAYS
Common questions about XRAYS
- Is XRAYS valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and XRAYS is not in it.
- How many points is XRAYS worth?
- XRAYS is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does XRAYS mean?
- To photograph the inside of a thing with penetrating radiation — the form used after he, she or it.
- What letters can be added to XRAYS?
- No single letter can be added to XRAYS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of XRAYS:
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