NEUMIC is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. NEUMIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NEUMIC?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NEUMIC is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NEUMIC
No single letter turns NEUMIC into another word.
How NEUMIC scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in NEUMIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 114,974.
What does NEUMIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
musictechnical
Relating to neumes, the signs used in medieval chant to show the rise and fall of a melody.
A neumic manuscript records a tune with marks above the text rather than with notes on a staff, and the word is mainly used by scholars of plainchant. The adjective points to the early stage of music writing, before pitch and length were shown precisely. A related spelling in some books is neumatic.
How NEUMIC is used
Specialist word used in musicology and chant studies.
- The monastery kept a rare neumic manuscript in its library.
- Her thesis traced neumic signs across three centuries.
- The neumic notation shows the shape of the melody but not the exact pitch.
- He learned to read neumic marks before he could read modern scores.
- A neumic chant book lay open on the lectern.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NEUMIC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in NEUMIC
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Common questions about NEUMIC
- Is NEUMIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NEUMIC, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NEUMIC worth?
- NEUMIC is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NEUMIC mean?
- Relating to neumes, the signs used in medieval chant to show the rise and fall of a melody.
- What letters can be added to NEUMIC?
- No single letter can be added to NEUMIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of NEUMIC:
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