FAMILISTIC is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. FAMILISTIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 20 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FAMILISTIC?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FAMILISTIC is to know. It scores 17 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FAMILISTIC
No single letter turns FAMILISTIC into another word.
How FAMILISTIC scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in FAMILISTIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 3 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so FAMILISTIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does FAMILISTIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Relating to familism, a social outlook that puts the family and its bonds above individual interests.
Sociologists use familistic to describe cultures or institutions organised around kinship. The label also appears in studies of firms that run on family loyalty rather than formal contracts.
How FAMILISTIC is used
Familistic is mostly an academic word in sociology and anthropology.
- The village had a strongly familistic way of sharing land and labour.
- Researchers described the company culture as familistic and loyal.
- A familistic society expects relatives to look after one another first.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FAMILISTIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FAMILISTIC
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Common questions about FAMILISTIC
- Is FAMILISTIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FAMILISTIC, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FAMILISTIC worth?
- FAMILISTIC is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FAMILISTIC mean?
- Relating to familism, a social outlook that puts the family and its bonds above individual interests.
- What letters can be added to FAMILISTIC?
- No single letter can be added to FAMILISTIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of FAMILISTIC:
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