DIATHETIC is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. DIATHETIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DIATHETIC?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DIATHETIC is to know. It scores 15 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DIATHETIC
No single letter turns DIATHETIC into another word.
How DIATHETIC scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in DIATHETIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so DIATHETIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does DIATHETIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medical
Relating to a diathesis, an inherited or built-in tendency of the body to develop a particular illness.
A diathetic condition is one that arises from a person's constitution instead of from an outside infection. The term belongs to older medicine, where doctors spoke of gouty or tubercular diathesis and described the resulting disorders as diathetic.
How DIATHETIC is used
Technical and dated medical vocabulary for disorders linked to a constitutional predisposition.
- The physician described the illness as diathetic rather than infectious.
- A diathetic tendency ran in the family.
- Old texts list diathetic diseases such as gout.
- He studied diathetic disorders in a nineteenth-century manual.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DIATHETIC and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in DIATHETIC
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Common questions about DIATHETIC
- Is DIATHETIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DIATHETIC, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DIATHETIC worth?
- DIATHETIC is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DIATHETIC mean?
- Relating to a diathesis, an inherited or built-in tendency of the body to develop a particular illness.
- What letters can be added to DIATHETIC?
- No single letter can be added to DIATHETIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of DIATHETIC:
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