The word hyena is a valid scrabble word

3 short excerpts of WikWik.org (WikWik is an online database of words defined in the English, French, Spanish, Italian, and other Wiktionnaries.)

  • hyena n. Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the subfamily Hyaenidae, native to Africa and…
  • hyena n. (Sub-Saharan Africa) A man that performs ritualized sex acts with recently widowed women and menarchal girls.
  • (In Dutch) hyena n. (Roofdieren) benaming voor zoogdieren uit de onderfamilie…

25 valid words from 3 definitions

ACTS AND ANY BENAMING CARNIVORES DE GIRLS LARGE MAN MEDIUM NATIVE OF PERFORMS RECENTLY RITUALIZED SEX SIZED SUB SUBFAMILY THAT THE TO WIDOWED WITH WOMEN

10 invalid words from 3 definitions

AFRICA FELIFORM HYAENIDAE MENARCHAL ONDERFAMILIE ROOFDIEREN SAHARAN UIT VOOR ZOOGDIEREN

6 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word.)

EN HYE HYEN NA YE YEN

3 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word.)

AN ANE NE

One cousin (New word found by changing only one letter.)

HYENS

One lipogram (New word found when removing only one letter.)

HYEN

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

HYAENA

One suffix (New word found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

HYENAS

3 anagrams plus one (New words formed with all the letters from the word plus a letter.)

+A HYAENA
+S HYENAS
+U HAUYNE

5 anagrams minus one (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

-A HYEN
-E NYAH
-H YEAN
-N YEAH
-Y HAEN

Scrabble scoring

  • 11 points.

Probability in scrabble (Probability to draw 7 letters at the beginning of the game to build the word.)

  • Joker allowed, 1 in 316 chance (0.32%).
  • Joker not allowed, 1 in 1383 chance (0.07%).

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Categories without words

  • No anagrams (Word found by changing the order of the letters.)
  • Not found in the middle (Word found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)
  • No prefixes (Word found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

Scrabble words — in black are valid world wide — in RED are not valid in North America — in GREEN are valid only in North America.

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