EPITAXIC is a valid Scrabble word — 19 points
Yes. EPITAXIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 19 points in Scrabble and 21 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept EPITAXIC?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| 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: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EPITAXIC is to know. It scores 19 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EPITAXIC
No single letter turns EPITAXIC into another word.
How EPITAXIC scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in EPITAXIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so EPITAXIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does EPITAXIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Relating to epitaxy, the growth of a thin crystal layer on another crystal so that both share the same structure.
Epitaxy matters in making computer chips, where a perfect crystal film is grown on a wafer. The adjective is a cousin of epitaxial, which is the form most engineers use. Epitaxic is much rarer and mostly found in older or specialist texts.
How EPITAXIC is used
Epitaxic is a rare technical variant used in crystallography and semiconductor work.
- The epitaxic film matched the lattice of the base crystal.
- An epitaxic layer was grown at high temperature.
- They studied epitaxic growth on silicon.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EPITAXIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in EPITAXIC
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Common questions about EPITAXIC
- Is EPITAXIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts EPITAXIC, where it scores 21 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is EPITAXIC worth?
- EPITAXIC is worth 19 points in Scrabble and 21 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EPITAXIC mean?
- Relating to epitaxy, the growth of a thin crystal layer on another crystal so that both share the same structure.
- What letters can be added to EPITAXIC?
- No single letter can be added to EPITAXIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of EPITAXIC:
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