ANORTHIC is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. ANORTHIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ANORTHIC?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANORTHIC is to know. It scores 13 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANORTHIC
No single letter turns ANORTHIC into another word.
How ANORTHIC scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in ANORTHIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ANORTHIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about ANORTHIC
- All 8 letters of ANORTHIC are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ANORTHIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Describing a crystal with three axes of different lengths that all meet at slanting angles.
Anorthic is an older term from mineralogy, now generally replaced by triclinic. Crystals of this type have the lowest symmetry of all, so they look lopsided. You will find anorthic mainly in nineteenth-century geology texts.
How ANORTHIC is used
Dated mineralogy term, equal to triclinic in modern usage.
- The mineral forms anorthic crystals with no right angles.
- An anorthic system has three unequal axes meeting obliquely.
- The old catalogue labelled the specimen as anorthic.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANORTHIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ANORTHIC
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Common questions about ANORTHIC
- Is ANORTHIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANORTHIC, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANORTHIC worth?
- ANORTHIC is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANORTHIC mean?
- Describing a crystal with three axes of different lengths that all meet at slanting angles.
- What letters can be added to ANORTHIC?
- No single letter can be added to ANORTHIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of ANORTHIC:
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