AZOIC is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. AZOIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AZOIC?
| 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: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AZOIC is to know. It scores 16 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AZOIC
No single letter turns AZOIC into another word.
How AZOIC scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in AZOIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| z | 1 | 1 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does AZOIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Without any form of life, especially describing rocks or a geological period formed before life existed on Earth.
Geologists once used azoic to label the very earliest layers of rock, laid down before any living organism existed to leave a trace or a fossil. By extension, azoic can describe any place, surface, or period that is completely without biological life.
How AZOIC is used
Mostly found in geology and earth-science writing.
- Geologists once labeled the oldest rock layers azoic because they held no fossils.
- The moon's surface is entirely azoic, with no trace of biology.
- Scientists describe azoic ocean depths where sunlight and life cannot reach.
- The textbook calls the earliest era of Earth's history the azoic period.
- Almost nothing survives in the azoic soil near the volcanic vents.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AZOIC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in AZOIC
2 words end in AZOIC. Useful as a back hook: play AZOIC onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in AZOIC
Common questions about AZOIC
- Is AZOIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AZOIC, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AZOIC worth?
- AZOIC is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AZOIC mean?
- Without any form of life, especially describing rocks or a geological period formed before life existed on Earth.
- What letters can be added to AZOIC?
- No single letter can be added to AZOIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of AZOIC:
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