COMPLICACY is a valid Scrabble word — 23 points
Yes. COMPLICACY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 23 points in Scrabble and 28 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COMPLICACY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COMPLICACY is to know. It scores 23 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COMPLICACY
No single letter turns COMPLICACY into another word.
How COMPLICACY scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in COMPLICACY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 3 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
The Scrabble bag does not hold enough of these letters. COMPLICACY needs 1 blank tile.
What does COMPLICACY mean in Scrabble?
noun
rare
The condition of having many interlocking parts that make something hard to understand.
Complicacy is a rarer cousin of complexity, and it tends to suggest tangled detail rather than sheer size. Writers reach for complicacy when they want to stress how many fiddly pieces must be dealt with.
How COMPLICACY is used
Complicacy appears in careful or formal prose, often in the plural when listing difficulties.
- Nobody could follow the complicacy of the tax rules.
- The complicacy of the plot made the film hard to summarise.
- She admired the complicacy of the old clock mechanism.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COMPLICACY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in COMPLICACY
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Common questions about COMPLICACY
- Is COMPLICACY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COMPLICACY, where it scores 28 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COMPLICACY worth?
- COMPLICACY is worth 23 points in Scrabble and 28 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COMPLICACY mean?
- The condition of having many interlocking parts that make something hard to understand.
- What letters can be added to COMPLICACY?
- No single letter can be added to COMPLICACY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of COMPLICACY:
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