GESTIC is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. GESTIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GESTIC?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GESTIC is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GESTIC
No single letter turns GESTIC into another word.
How GESTIC scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in GESTIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 76,649.
What does GESTIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rare
Relating to bodily movement or gesture, especially in dancing.
Gestic describes anything made of gestures, such as the expressive movements of a dancer or the physical language of an actor on stage. In modern writing about theatre it appears when critics discuss acting that relies on posture and motion rather than on speech. The word is built on gesture, with an adjective ending added. The longer form gestical means the same.
How GESTIC is used
Rare and technical; found in discussions of dance, drama and older literature.
- The director favoured a gestic style over spoken explanation.
- Her gestic vocabulary was small but precise.
- The critic praised the gestic power of the final scene.
- A gestic dance can tell a story without a single word.
- The old treatise describes each gestic movement in detail.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GESTIC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GESTIC
12 longer words begin with GESTIC.
Shorter words from the letters in GESTIC
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Common questions about GESTIC
- Is GESTIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GESTIC, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GESTIC worth?
- GESTIC is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GESTIC mean?
- Relating to bodily movement or gesture, especially in dancing.
- What letters can be added to GESTIC?
- No single letter can be added to GESTIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of GESTIC:
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