CALORIC is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. CALORIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CALORIC?
| 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: 51 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CALORIC is to know. It scores 11 from 7 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CALORIC
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
caloricsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CALORIC scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in CALORIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,029 thousand.
What stands out about CALORIC
- CALORIC begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CALORIC mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
An imagined weightless fluid that older science believed flowed between bodies and produced heat.
The caloric idea dominated chemistry until the nineteenth century, when heat came to be understood as the motion of particles. Writers now mention caloric mainly as a famous example of a theory that was replaced.
How CALORIC is used
The word caloric appears in histories of physics and chemistry, and sometimes loosely in older writing for heat itself.
- Early chemists spoke of caloric flowing from a hot iron into cold water.
- The caloric theory could not explain why friction keeps producing heat.
- In the old textbook, caloric was listed beside light and electricity as a subtle fluid.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CALORIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CALORIC
4 longer words begin with CALORIC.
Shorter words from the letters in CALORIC
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Common questions about CALORIC
- Is CALORIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CALORIC, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CALORIC worth?
- CALORIC is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CALORIC mean?
- An imagined weightless fluid that older science believed flowed between bodies and produced heat.
- What letters can be added to CALORIC?
- CALORIC takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of CALORIC:
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