EUCAINE is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. EUCAINE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept EUCAINE?
| 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: 54 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EUCAINE is to know. It scores 9 from 7 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EUCAINE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
eucainesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How EUCAINE scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in EUCAINE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 2 | 12 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 62,381.
What stands out about EUCAINE
- EUCAINE begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does EUCAINE mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicalhistorical
A synthetic white crystalline compound once used as a local anaesthetic in place of cocaine.
Eucaine was developed in the 1890s as a supposedly safer relative of cocaine, though it later gave way to better drugs. It is now chiefly a footnote in the history of pharmacology.
How EUCAINE is used
Eucaine is met in histories of medicine and in older pharmacy texts.
- The dentist injected eucaine before pulling the tooth.
- Eucaine was less toxic than cocaine but still fell out of use.
- An old pharmacy ledger listed eucaine next to other numbing agents.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EUCAINE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with EUCAINE
1 longer words begin with EUCAINE.
Shorter words from the letters in EUCAINE
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Common questions about EUCAINE
- Is EUCAINE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts EUCAINE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is EUCAINE worth?
- EUCAINE is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EUCAINE mean?
- A synthetic white crystalline compound once used as a local anaesthetic in place of cocaine.
- What letters can be added to EUCAINE?
- EUCAINE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of EUCAINE:
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