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LYSOGENIES

10 letters, 14 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What LYSOGENIES Means

LYSOGENIES is a form of LYSOGENY, which means:

  1. noun: the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material“when a phage infects a bacterium it can either destroy its host or be incorporated in the host genome in a state of lysogeny”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

LYSOGENIES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as L1 Y4 S1 O1 G2 E1 N1 I1 E1 S1.

Anagrams of LYSOGENIES (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In LYSOGENIES

505 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.

8 letter words (7)

7 letter words (38)

6 letter words (83)

5 letter words (129)

4 letter words (142)

3 letter words (83)

2 letter words (23)

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