EPISTATIC is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. EPISTATIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept EPISTATIC?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EPISTATIC is to know. It scores 13 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EPISTATIC
No single letter turns EPISTATIC into another word.
How EPISTATIC scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in EPISTATIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so EPISTATIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does EPISTATIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Describing a gene that masks or suppresses the effect of another gene at a different location.
Geneticists use epistatic when one gene overrides what another would normally show, so that expected ratios of traits shift. The related noun epistasis names the interaction itself. Epistatic effects explain why coat colours in animals do not always follow simple patterns.
How EPISTATIC is used
Technical term in genetics.
- The epistatic gene prevented the pigment gene from showing its colour.
- Epistatic interactions made the breeding results hard to predict.
- Researchers mapped which genes were epistatic to the flowering trait.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EPISTATIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in EPISTATIC
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Common questions about EPISTATIC
- Is EPISTATIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts EPISTATIC, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is EPISTATIC worth?
- EPISTATIC is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EPISTATIC mean?
- Describing a gene that masks or suppresses the effect of another gene at a different location.
- What letters can be added to EPISTATIC?
- No single letter can be added to EPISTATIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of EPISTATIC:
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