OCTAN is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. OCTAN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OCTAN?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OCTAN is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OCTAN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OCTAN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in OCTAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What stands out about OCTAN
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does OCTAN mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medicalarchaic
Recurring on every eighth day, used especially of a fever that returns at that interval.
Older medical writing classified recurring fevers by the gap between attacks, naming a tertian fever for one striking every third day and a quartan fever for every fourth; octan followed the same pattern for an eight-day cycle. Modern medicine no longer sorts fevers this way, so an octan pattern is now something a reader mostly meets in older textbooks and case notes.
How OCTAN is used
A rare, mostly historical medical term, encountered chiefly in older writing about recurring fevers.
- The old physician diagnosed an octan fever in his patient.
- Octan attacks were noted to strike every eight days without fail.
- The textbook described octan fever alongside the more common tertian and quartan types.
- Few modern doctors ever use the term octan in practice.
- His notes recorded an octan pattern of chills and sweating.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OCTAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of OCTAN
The 5 tiles of OCTAN in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with OCTAN
14 longer words begin with OCTAN.
Words with OCTAN inside
2 words contain OCTAN in the middle. Words that start with OCTAN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in OCTAN
Common questions about OCTAN
- Is OCTAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OCTAN, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OCTAN worth?
- OCTAN is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OCTAN mean?
- Recurring on every eighth day, used especially of a fever that returns at that interval.
- What letters can be added to OCTAN?
- OCTAN takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of OCTAN:
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