FULMINIC is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. FULMINIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 20 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FULMINIC?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FULMINIC is to know. It scores 15 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FULMINIC
No single letter turns FULMINIC into another word.
How FULMINIC scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in FULMINIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so FULMINIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does FULMINIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
chemistry
Relating to an unstable, explosive acid, or to compounds derived from it.
Chemists mention fulminic acid and its salts, the fulminates, which were once used in detonators. The word is highly specialised and almost never appears outside chemistry texts.
How FULMINIC is used
Technical; used in chemistry, mainly in the phrase "fulminic acid".
- Fulminic acid is too unstable to store.
- Early percussion caps relied on fulminic compounds.
- The textbook explained the fulminic salts in one short chapter.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FULMINIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FULMINIC
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Common questions about FULMINIC
- Is FULMINIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FULMINIC, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FULMINIC worth?
- FULMINIC is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FULMINIC mean?
- Relating to an unstable, explosive acid, or to compounds derived from it.
- What letters can be added to FULMINIC?
- No single letter can be added to FULMINIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of FULMINIC:
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