FICTILE is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. FICTILE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FICTILE?
| 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: 51 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FICTILE is to know. It scores 12 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FICTILE
No single letter turns FICTILE into another word.
How FICTILE scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in FICTILE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 385,985.
What does FICTILE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Made of clay or similar soft material, or able to be shaped by a potter.
Fictile belongs to pottery vocabulary and to old-fashioned descriptions of museum objects. It can say that a thing is baked earth, such as a jar or figure, or that the substance is soft enough to be moulded.
How FICTILE is used
Rare and bookish, found in art history and archaeological writing about pottery.
- The museum keeps a fictile vase from the ancient workshop.
- Wet clay is a fictile material that holds any form pressed into it.
- He collected fictile figures dug up from the old kiln site.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FICTILE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FICTILE
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Common questions about FICTILE
- Is FICTILE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FICTILE, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FICTILE worth?
- FICTILE is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FICTILE mean?
- Made of clay or similar soft material, or able to be shaped by a potter.
- What letters can be added to FICTILE?
- No single letter can be added to FICTILE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of FICTILE:
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