FUSTIC is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. FUSTIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FUSTIC?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FUSTIC is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FUSTIC
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
fusticsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FUSTIC scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in FUSTIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 344,923.
What does FUSTIC mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A tropical American tree whose wood yields a yellow dye, or the dye itself.
Fustic usually means the heartwood of a large tropical tree, once chipped and boiled by dyers to give khaki, olive and yellow tones to cloth. The word reached English through French and Spanish from Arabic. Dyers distinguished old fustic from a second, weaker kind called young fustic. Synthetic dyes have largely replaced it, but it lives on in textile history.
How FUSTIC is used
Technical and historical; used in dyeing, botany and textile history.
- The dyer simmered chips of fustic in a copper vat.
- Fustic and logwood together produced a deep green.
- Ships carried fustic from the Caribbean to English mills.
- The uniform cloth was coloured with fustic and iron.
- A sack of fustic stood by the dyehouse door.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FUSTIC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FUSTIC
1 longer words begin with FUSTIC.
Shorter words from the letters in FUSTIC
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Common questions about FUSTIC
- Is FUSTIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FUSTIC, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FUSTIC worth?
- FUSTIC is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FUSTIC mean?
- A tropical American tree whose wood yields a yellow dye, or the dye itself.
- What letters can be added to FUSTIC?
- FUSTIC takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of FUSTIC:
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