COLUMBIC is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. COLUMBIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 22 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COLUMBIC?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COLUMBIC is to know. It scores 16 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COLUMBIC
No single letter turns COLUMBIC into another word.
How COLUMBIC scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in COLUMBIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so COLUMBIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about COLUMBIC
- COLUMBIC 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 COLUMBIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
chemistryarchaic
Relating to or containing columbium, the old name for the element niobium.
Columbic is an older chemists word, replaced when columbium was renamed niobium. It survives in the names of acids and compounds of that element in nineteenth-century texts.
How COLUMBIC is used
Columbic appears in historical chemistry, where it is another term for niobic.
- The old manual lists columbic acid among the rare compounds.
- He studied a columbic salt in the laboratory.
- A columbic mineral was found in the granite.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COLUMBIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in COLUMBIC
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Common questions about COLUMBIC
- Is COLUMBIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COLUMBIC, where it scores 22 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COLUMBIC worth?
- COLUMBIC is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COLUMBIC mean?
- Relating to or containing columbium, the old name for the element niobium.
- What letters can be added to COLUMBIC?
- No single letter can be added to COLUMBIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of COLUMBIC:
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