MUCIC is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. MUCIC is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept MUCIC?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MUCIC is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MUCIC
No single letter turns MUCIC into another word.
How MUCIC scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MUCIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| c | 2 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,046 thousand.
What does MUCIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
chemistry
Relating to or denoting an acid obtained by oxidising certain sugars.
Mucic almost never stands alone: the word appears chiefly in the fixed phrase mucic acid, a colourless crystalline solid produced by oxidising galactose or gum sugars. Chemists coined mucic from the older word mucilage, the sticky substance found in plant gums, because the acid was first isolated from that source.
How MUCIC is used
Chemistry; used before the noun acid and rarely elsewhere.
- Mucic acid forms when galactose is treated with nitric acid.
- The label named the compound mucic acid rather than a trivial name.
- A mucic derivative turned up in the analysis of the plant gum.
- Textbooks introduce mucic acid alongside its close relative, saccharic acid.
- The mucic sample crystallised slowly out of the cooled solution.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MUCIC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in MUCIC
Common questions about MUCIC
- Is MUCIC valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and MUCIC is not in it.
- How many points is MUCIC worth?
- MUCIC is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MUCIC mean?
- Relating to or denoting an acid obtained by oxidising certain sugars.
- What letters can be added to MUCIC?
- No single letter can be added to MUCIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MUCIC:
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