The word leprosy 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.)

  • leprosy n. (Medicine) An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, gradually producing nerve…
  • leprosy n. (Medicine, now usually proscribed) Similar contagious skin diseases causing light patches of scaly skin…
  • leprosy n. (Figurative) Anything considered similarly permanent, harmful, and communicable, particularly when such…

35 valid words from 3 definitions

AN AND ANYTHING BACTERIUM BY CAUSED CAUSING COMMUNICABLE CONSIDERED CONTAGIOUS DISEASE DISEASES FIGURATIVE GRADUALLY HARMFUL INFECTIOUS LIGHT MEDICINE MYCOBACTERIUM NERVE NOW OF PARTICULARLY PATCHES PERMANENT PRODUCING PROSCRIBED SCALY SIMILAR SIMILARLY SKIN SUCH THE USUALLY WHEN

1 invalid word from 3 definitions

LEPRAE

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

LEP OS PRO PROS PROSY ROSY

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

EL OR PE PEL SO

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

LEPROSE

One prefix (New word found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

ANTILEPROSY

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

+I PYROLISE
+M POLYMERS
+R PYRROLES
+T PROSTYLE PROTYLES
+Y PYROLYSE

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

-L OSPREY
-O PLYERS
-P SORELY
-R PLOYES POLEYS
-S PELORY
-Y LOPERS POLERS PROLES SLOPER SPLORE

Scrabble scoring

  • 12 points.

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

  • Joker allowed, 1 in 70377 chance.
  • Joker not allowed, 1 in 434233 chance.

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Categories without words

  • No anagrams (Word found by changing the order of the letters.)
  • No lipograms (Word found when removing only one letter.)
  • No epentheses (Word found when adding only one letter.)
  • No suffixes (Word found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)
  • Not found in the middle (Word found by adding letters in front and at the end 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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