AUTIST is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. AUTIST is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AUTIST?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AUTIST is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AUTIST
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
autistsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AUTIST scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in AUTIST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 61,320.
What does AUTIST mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicalhistorical
A person who has autism, a developmental condition that affects communication, social interaction, and behavior.
Autist was built from autism the same way the words dentist and scientist are built from their related nouns, giving English a short agent word for a person with the condition. Earlier twentieth-century medical writing used autist fairly often, but much current writing prefers the phrase autistic person or the adjective autistic used directly, since many people and clinicians favor identity-first or person-first alternatives over the older noun. Autist still appears in older textbooks, translated research, and some everyday speech, even though style guides for current publications increasingly steer away from it. Readers researching autism in older sources should expect to meet the word there.
How AUTIST is used
Found mainly in older medical writing; current style guides mostly prefer autistic person or autistic instead.
- The 1960s textbook describes each autist's specific symptoms.
- An older study refers to the child simply as an autist.
- Translated research sometimes keeps the word autist from the original language.
- Modern writers rarely call someone an autist in current articles.
- The archive holds case files that label each patient an autist.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AUTIST and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with AUTIST
4 longer words begin with AUTIST.
Shorter words from the letters in AUTIST
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Common questions about AUTIST
- Is AUTIST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AUTIST, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AUTIST worth?
- AUTIST is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AUTIST mean?
- A person who has autism, a developmental condition that affects communication, social interaction, and behavior.
- What letters can be added to AUTIST?
- AUTIST takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of AUTIST:
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