ISTHMIC is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. ISTHMIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ISTHMIC?
| 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: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ISTHMIC is to know. It scores 14 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ISTHMIC
No single letter turns ISTHMIC into another word.
How ISTHMIC scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in ISTHMIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| i | 2 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,316 thousand.
What does ISTHMIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Relating to an isthmus, the narrow strip joining two larger bodies.
The word isthmic turns up in geography, where it describes land strips between seas, and in anatomy, where it refers to narrow connecting parts. Writers use isthmic to avoid repeating a longer phrase about necks of land. It is rarer than the noun it comes from.
How ISTHMIC is used
Isthmic is mostly found in geographical and biological descriptions.
- The isthmic region was the only land route between the two continents.
- An isthmic channel once linked the two lakes.
- Doctors found a narrowing in the isthmic part of the tube.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ISTHMIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ISTHMIC
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Common questions about ISTHMIC
- Is ISTHMIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ISTHMIC, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ISTHMIC worth?
- ISTHMIC is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ISTHMIC mean?
- Relating to an isthmus, the narrow strip joining two larger bodies.
- What letters can be added to ISTHMIC?
- No single letter can be added to ISTHMIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of ISTHMIC:
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