NAPHTHENIC is a valid Scrabble word — 20 points
Yes. NAPHTHENIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 20 points in Scrabble and 22 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NAPHTHENIC?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NAPHTHENIC is to know. It scores 20 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NAPHTHENIC
No single letter turns NAPHTHENIC into another word.
How NAPHTHENIC scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in NAPHTHENIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 2 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 2 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so NAPHTHENIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does NAPHTHENIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
chemistry
Relating to naphthenes, the ring-shaped saturated hydrocarbons found in petroleum.
Naphthenic oils are rich in these ring structures and stay fluid at low temperatures, which suits them for certain lubricants and insulating fluids. Refiners classify crude oil as paraffinic, naphthenic or mixed. The word is almost never met outside the oil and chemical industries.
How NAPHTHENIC is used
Technical term from petroleum chemistry and the lubricants trade.
- The refinery processed a naphthenic crude with high ring content.
- Naphthenic oil is often used in transformers.
- Chemists compared naphthenic and paraffinic samples under the test.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NAPHTHENIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in NAPHTHENIC
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Common questions about NAPHTHENIC
- Is NAPHTHENIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NAPHTHENIC, where it scores 22 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NAPHTHENIC worth?
- NAPHTHENIC is worth 20 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NAPHTHENIC mean?
- Relating to naphthenes, the ring-shaped saturated hydrocarbons found in petroleum.
- What letters can be added to NAPHTHENIC?
- No single letter can be added to NAPHTHENIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of NAPHTHENIC:
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