Definitions for upsilon

upsilon up·si·lon

Spelling: [yoop-suh-lon, -luh n, uhp-; Upsilon is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 175 anagrams from letters in upsilon (ilnopsu).

Definitions for upsilon

noun

  1. the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet (Υ, υ).
  2. the vowel sound represented by this letter.
  3. Also called upsilon particle. Physics. any of a family of heavy, short-lived, neutral mesons that are composed of a bottom quark and its antiquark. Symbol: Υ, υ.

Origin of upsilon

1615-25; Late Greek ŷ psīlón literally, simple u (to distinguish it from the digraph oi, pronounced the same in LGk)

Examples for upsilon

This species is the ypsilon of Borkhausen, and the upsilon of other authors.

She issued an order, therefore, that for a certain time upsilon was to have no playthings.

Word Value for upsilon
Scrable

9

Words with friends

13

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