NITRIC is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. NITRIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NITRIC?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NITRIC is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NITRIC
No single letter turns NITRIC into another word.
How NITRIC scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in NITRIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 76,649.
What does NITRIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
chemistry
Of, relating to, or containing nitrogen, especially in compounds where nitrogen shows its higher combining power.
Nitric is best known through nitric acid, a strong, corrosive acid used widely in fertilizer production, explosives manufacture and metal processing. Chemists originally coined nitric to contrast with nitrous, distinguishing compounds where nitrogen shows a higher valency from those where it shows a lower one, as in nitric oxide versus nitrous oxide. The word appears almost exclusively in chemical names and descriptions rather than in general vocabulary.
How NITRIC is used
A chemistry term, almost always encountered in compound names such as nitric acid or nitric oxide.
- The lab technician handled the nitric acid with heavy gloves and a mask.
- Farmers rely on nitric compounds in several common fertilizers.
- The reaction produced a brown gas identified as nitric oxide.
- Students learned to distinguish nitric compounds from nitrous ones.
- Old photographs sometimes used nitric acid in the developing process.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NITRIC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of NITRIC
The 6 tiles of NITRIC in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in NITRIC
Common questions about NITRIC
- Is NITRIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NITRIC, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NITRIC worth?
- NITRIC is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NITRIC mean?
- Of, relating to, or containing nitrogen, especially in compounds where nitrogen shows its higher combining power.
- What letters can be added to NITRIC?
- No single letter can be added to NITRIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of NITRIC:
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