MIASMATIC is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. MIASMATIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MIASMATIC?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MIASMATIC is to know. It scores 15 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MIASMATIC
No single letter turns MIASMATIC into another word.
How MIASMATIC scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in MIASMATIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 2 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so MIASMATIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does MIASMATIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literarymedical
Relating to or like a miasma, a foul vapour once believed to carry disease.
Before germs were understood, doctors blamed swamps and rotting matter for giving off harmful air. Miasmatic described that bad air and the illnesses thought to come from it. Today the word survives in literary writing for any heavy, unwholesome atmosphere.
How MIASMATIC is used
Rare; used in historical medicine and in descriptive, literary prose.
- A miasmatic fog hung over the river at night.
- Old physicians feared the miasmatic vapours rising from the marsh.
- The room had a miasmatic gloom that made everyone uneasy.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MIASMATIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MIASMATIC
1 longer words begin with MIASMATIC.
Shorter words from the letters in MIASMATIC
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Common questions about MIASMATIC
- Is MIASMATIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MIASMATIC, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MIASMATIC worth?
- MIASMATIC is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MIASMATIC mean?
- Relating to or like a miasma, a foul vapour once believed to carry disease.
- What letters can be added to MIASMATIC?
- No single letter can be added to MIASMATIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of MIASMATIC:
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