What HILUS Means
- noun: (anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ“the hilus of the kidney”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
HILUS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as H4 I1 L1 U1 S1.
Words Made From The Letters In HILUS
15 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.
4 letter words (3)
3 letter words (5)
2 letter words (7)
Longer Words Containing HILUS
HILUS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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