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HOMOZYGOUS

10 letters, 28 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What HOMOZYGOUS Means

  1. adjective: having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci“these two fruit flies are homozygous for red eye color”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

HOMOZYGOUS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 28 in Scrabble and 30 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as H4 O1 M3 O1 Z10 Y4 G2 O1 U1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In HOMOZYGOUS

141 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

7 letter words (1)

6 letter words (1)

5 letter words (13)

4 letter words (51)

3 letter words (53)

2 letter words (22)

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