LAC is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. LAC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LAC?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LAC is to know. It scores 5 from 3 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LAC
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How LAC scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in LAC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,246.
What does LAC mean in Scrabble?
noun
A resin produced by an insect, used to make shellac.
Lac is scraped from the twigs where the insects have settled, and shellac is that same resin in flakes. A separate lac is an Indian numeral for a hundred thousand, and the two are unrelated although both reached English from the subcontinent.
How LAC is used
Uncountable for the resin; countable for the numeral.
- Lac is collected from twigs and melted into flakes.
- The word lac gives shellac its first syllable.
- A lac of rupees is a hundred thousand of them.
- Records were pressed in lac before vinyl existed.
- Two entirely separate words are spelled lac.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LAC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of LAC
The 3 tiles of LAC in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with LAC
Showing 24 of 215 words that begin with LAC.
Words ending in LAC
2 words end in LAC. Useful as a back hook: play LAC onto a word already on the board.
Words with LAC inside
Showing 24 of 813 words that contain LAC somewhere in the middle. Words that start with LAC are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in LAC
Common questions about LAC
- Is LAC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LAC, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LAC worth?
- LAC is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LAC mean?
- A resin produced by an insect, used to make shellac.
- What letters can be added to LAC?
- LAC takes 4 hooks: 0 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of LAC:
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