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Is photon a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word photon is a Scrabble US word. The word photon is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

P3H4O1T1O1N1

Is photon a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word photon is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

P3H4O1T1O1N1

Is photon a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word photon is a Words With Friends word. The word photon is worth 12 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

P4H3O1T1O1N2

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6-letter words (1 found)

PHOTON,

5-letter words (2 found)

PHONO,PHOTO,

4-letter words (17 found)

HOON,HOOP,HOOT,NOOP,ONTO,OONT,PHON,PHOT,PONT,POOH,POON,POOT,THON,TOHO,TOON,TOPH,TOPO,

3-letter words (24 found)

HON,HOO,HOP,HOT,NOH,NOO,NOT,NTH,OHO,ONO,OOH,OON,OOP,OOT,OPT,PHO,PHT,POH,POO,POT,THO,TON,TOO,TOP,

2-letter words (8 found)

HO,NO,OH,ON,OO,OP,PO,TO,

You can make 52 words from photon according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of photon

photon

Etymology

From photo- +‎ -on. Coined by American physicist Leonard Troland in 1916 as a unit of light hitting the retina, and later popularized in a more modern sense by Gilbert N. Lewis, with the term gaining acceptance in the physics community by the late 1920s.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfəʊtɒn/
  • Rhymes: -əʊtɒn

Noun

photon (plural photons)

  1. (physics) The quantum of light and other electromagnetic energy, regarded as a discrete particle having zero rest mass, no electric charge, and an indefinitely long lifetime. It is a gauge boson.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • phonon
  • plasmon

Anagrams

  • Hopton, notoph

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɔ.tɔ̃/

Noun

photon m (plural photons)

  1. (physics) photon

Further reading

  • “photon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Source: wiktionary.org