DERMIC is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. DERMIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DERMIC?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DERMIC is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DERMIC
No single letter turns DERMIC into another word.
How DERMIC scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in DERMIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 114,974.
What does DERMIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medical
A rarer medical adjective for anything belonging to the skin, met mainly in older texts in place of dermal.
Dermic is a technical word that doctors and biologists use when a matter concerns the skin itself. It is built on the Greek root for skin, the same one found in dermatology, and it has the shorter everyday relatives dermal and cutaneous.
How DERMIC is used
Technical; found in medical and biological writing, almost never in ordinary talk.
- The dermic layer holds the blood vessels and nerve endings.
- A dermic injection is placed into the skin rather than the muscle.
- The textbook describes dermic tissue in a separate chapter.
- Doctors noted a dermic reaction around the bite.
- The cream has a dermic effect and does not reach the bloodstream.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DERMIC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DERMIC
The 6 tiles of DERMIC in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in DERMIC
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Common questions about DERMIC
- Is DERMIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DERMIC, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DERMIC worth?
- DERMIC is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DERMIC mean?
- A rarer medical adjective for anything belonging to the skin, met mainly in older texts in place of dermal.
- What letters can be added to DERMIC?
- No single letter can be added to DERMIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of DERMIC:
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