DEMIC is a valid Scrabble word, but not in Words with Friends — 10 points
Yes for Scrabble. DEMIC is in Collins and in the North American lists, so it stands in any Scrabble game. Words with Friends keeps a separate list and does not accept it.
Which word lists accept DEMIC?
| 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 | Not listed |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DEMIC is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DEMIC
No single letter turns DEMIC into another word.
How DEMIC scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DEMIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does DEMIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Relating to a human population, especially its movement, growth or genetic spread.
Demic comes from the Greek word for people and lets researchers talk about a population as a whole rather than about culture or ideas. The clearest use is demic diffusion, where a trait spreads because people themselves migrate and settle, in contrast with cultural diffusion, where only the practice travels between existing populations. Archaeologists and geneticists reach for demic when they need to say that bodies moved, not just customs.
How DEMIC is used
Technical, chiefly in archaeology, genetics and demography; rare outside academic writing.
- The study argued for demic spread of early farming across Europe.
- A demic model explains the gene pattern better than a cultural one does.
- Demic diffusion assumes that people themselves resettled the region.
- Few textbooks outside anthropology ever use the word demic.
- The paper compared demic and cultural explanations side by side.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DEMIC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DEMIC
The 5 tiles of DEMIC in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with DEMIC
2 longer words begin with DEMIC.
Words ending in DEMIC
14 words end in DEMIC. Useful as a back hook: play DEMIC onto a word already on the board.
Words with DEMIC inside
Showing 24 of 25 words that contain DEMIC somewhere in the middle. Words that start with DEMIC are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DEMIC
Common questions about DEMIC
- Is DEMIC valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and DEMIC is not in it.
- How many points is DEMIC worth?
- DEMIC is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DEMIC mean?
- Relating to a human population, especially its movement, growth or genetic spread.
- What letters can be added to DEMIC?
- No single letter can be added to DEMIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DEMIC:
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