BANAUSIC is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. BANAUSIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BANAUSIC?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BANAUSIC is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BANAUSIC
No single letter turns BANAUSIC into another word.
How BANAUSIC scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in BANAUSIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so BANAUSIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does BANAUSIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
formalliterary
Merely mechanical or routine in nature, lacking any inspiring or imaginative quality.
Writers reach for banausic when they want to sneer gently at work done by rote, as opposed to work that engages the mind. It carries a faint snobbery inherited from the classical world, where manual trades ranked below contemplation.
How BANAUSIC is used
Banausic appears mostly in essays and criticism, usually to dismiss duties that feel purely utilitarian.
- He found the banausic side of the job, filing and stamping forms, hard to bear.
- The professor complained that the syllabus had become banausic and joyless.
- She escaped her banausic routine by sketching on the train.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BANAUSIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BANAUSIC
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Common questions about BANAUSIC
- Is BANAUSIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BANAUSIC, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BANAUSIC worth?
- BANAUSIC is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BANAUSIC mean?
- Merely mechanical or routine in nature, lacking any inspiring or imaginative quality.
- What letters can be added to BANAUSIC?
- No single letter can be added to BANAUSIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of BANAUSIC:
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