ECHOIC is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. ECHOIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ECHOIC?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ECHOIC is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ECHOIC
No single letter turns ECHOIC into another word.
How ECHOIC scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ECHOIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| c | 2 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 689,845.
What does ECHOIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Imitating a natural sound in its form, as a word does, or resembling an echo.
Linguists call a word echoic when its sound suggests the thing it names, so buzz, hiss and cuckoo are all echoic. The term is close to onomatopoeic and is common in dictionaries that explain where a word comes from. Outside linguistics it can describe any sound that repeats or seems to bounce back, such as an echoic hall.
How ECHOIC is used
Mostly technical, found in linguistics and in word-origin notes.
- The dictionary marks the origin of the word as echoic.
- An echoic name like cuckoo copies the bird's own call.
- The stone corridor gave the choir an echoic ring.
- She noted several echoic terms in the child's early speech.
- The poem leans on echoic repetition to build its mood.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ECHOIC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ECHOIC
The 6 tiles of ECHOIC in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ECHOIC
1 longer words begin with ECHOIC.
Shorter words from the letters in ECHOIC
Common questions about ECHOIC
- Is ECHOIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ECHOIC, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ECHOIC worth?
- ECHOIC is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ECHOIC mean?
- Imitating a natural sound in its form, as a word does, or resembling an echo.
- What letters can be added to ECHOIC?
- No single letter can be added to ECHOIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ECHOIC:
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