HAPTENIC is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. HAPTENIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HAPTENIC?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HAPTENIC is to know. It scores 15 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HAPTENIC
No single letter turns HAPTENIC into another word.
How HAPTENIC scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in HAPTENIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so HAPTENIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about HAPTENIC
- All 8 letters of HAPTENIC are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does HAPTENIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medicaltechnical
Behaving as a hapten: able to bind to an antibody but unable on its own to provoke the body into making one.
Haptenic is a narrow laboratory word from immunology. A haptenic substance is too small to provoke antibodies by itself, which is why researchers bind it to a protein first.
How HAPTENIC is used
Found in immunology and chemistry papers.
- The haptenic group was linked to a carrier protein.
- Researchers studied the haptenic properties of the drug.
- A haptenic molecule alone cannot trigger antibodies.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HAPTENIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of HAPTENIC
The 8 tiles of HAPTENIC in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in HAPTENIC
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Common questions about HAPTENIC
- Is HAPTENIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HAPTENIC, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HAPTENIC worth?
- HAPTENIC is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HAPTENIC mean?
- Behaving as a hapten: able to bind to an antibody but unable on its own to provoke the body into making one.
- What letters can be added to HAPTENIC?
- No single letter can be added to HAPTENIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of HAPTENIC:
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