DALTONIC is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. DALTONIC 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 DALTONIC?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DALTONIC is to know. It scores 11 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DALTONIC
No single letter turns DALTONIC into another word.
How DALTONIC scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in DALTONIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so DALTONIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about DALTONIC
- All 8 letters of DALTONIC are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does DALTONIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medical
Affected by or relating to red-green colour blindness.
The term comes from the chemist John Dalton, who described his own inability to tell certain colours apart. A daltonic person may confuse reds with greens while seeing other hues normally.
How DALTONIC is used
Daltonic appears mostly in medical and scientific writing about colour vision.
- The daltonic student struggled to read the red and green wiring diagram.
- A daltonic driver may rely on the position of traffic lights rather than their colour.
- Doctors described his daltonic vision after a simple dot-pattern test.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DALTONIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DALTONIC
The 8 tiles of DALTONIC in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in DALTONIC
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Common questions about DALTONIC
- Is DALTONIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DALTONIC, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DALTONIC worth?
- DALTONIC is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DALTONIC mean?
- Affected by or relating to red-green colour blindness.
- What letters can be added to DALTONIC?
- No single letter can be added to DALTONIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of DALTONIC:
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