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POLYPLOID

9 letters, 17 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What POLYPLOID Means

  1. noun: (genetics) an organism or cell having more than twice the haploid number of chromosomes
  2. adjective: of a cell or organism having more than twice the haploid number of chromosomes“a polyploid cell”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

POLYPLOID is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 O1 L1 Y4 P3 L1 O1 I1 D2.

Words Made From The Letters In POLYPLOID

95 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 (1)

7 letter words (2)

6 letter words (6)

5 letter words (13)

4 letter words (35)

3 letter words (24)

2 letter words (14)

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