GENIC is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. GENIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GENIC?
| 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 GENIC is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GENIC
No single letter turns GENIC into another word.
How GENIC scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GENIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,364.
What does GENIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Relating to, produced by, or arising from a gene or genes, especially as opposed to effects caused by environment.
Geneticists reach for genic mainly in careful technical writing, to mark a trait or effect as coming specifically from the action of genes, which matters when a study needs to separate inherited causes from environmental ones. The word appears less often on its own than inside compounds such as genic balance, a term used to describe how the ratio of genes on sex chromosomes to those on other chromosomes can influence sex determination in some species. Because it sounds close to the far more common genetic, careful writers reserve genic for contexts where the narrower, gene-specific meaning actually matters.
How GENIC is used
A technical adjective from genetics, mostly confined to scientific writing rather than everyday use.
- The study measured purely genic effects on growth rate.
- Genic balance theory explains sex determination in some insects.
- Researchers separated genic from environmental influences on the trait.
- The paper described a genic mutation affecting pigment production.
- Genic factors accounted for most of the observed variation.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GENIC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GENIC
9 longer words begin with GENIC.
Words ending in GENIC
Showing 24 of 154 words that end in GENIC. Useful as a back hook: play GENIC onto a word already on the board.
Words with GENIC inside
Showing 24 of 69 words that contain GENIC somewhere in the middle. Words that start with GENIC are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in GENIC
Common questions about GENIC
- Is GENIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GENIC, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GENIC worth?
- GENIC is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GENIC mean?
- Relating to, produced by, or arising from a gene or genes, especially as opposed to effects caused by environment.
- What letters can be added to GENIC?
- No single letter can be added to GENIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GENIC:
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