ORCIN is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. ORCIN 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 ORCIN?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ORCIN is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ORCIN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ORCIN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ORCIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What does ORCIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
chemistry
A crystalline phenolic compound obtained from certain lichens, used in making dyes and in a laboratory test for sugars.
Orcin is extracted from lichens such as archil, and once treated with acid it turns from colourless into a deep red or violet dye, a process that supplied cloth dyers with purple colour long before synthetic dyes existed. Chemists also rely on orcin as a reagent, since its colour change in the presence of certain sugars, such as those found in RNA, is used in a well-known laboratory test to detect them. The compound is also known by the fuller name orcinol.
How ORCIN is used
A specialist chemistry term met in discussions of dye chemistry and laboratory reagents, not in everyday speech.
- The lab technician added orcin to the sample to test for the sugar.
- Weavers once dyed wool with a purple extract made from orcin.
- The reaction turned deep red once the orcin met the acid.
- Orcin is derived from a lichen that grows on coastal rocks.
- The chemistry manual listed orcin among the classic natural dyestuffs.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ORCIN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ORCIN
The 5 tiles of ORCIN in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ORCIN
5 longer words begin with ORCIN.
Words ending in ORCIN
1 words end in ORCIN. Useful as a back hook: play ORCIN onto a word already on the board.
Words with ORCIN inside
21 words contain ORCIN in the middle. Words that start with ORCIN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ORCIN
Common questions about ORCIN
- Is ORCIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ORCIN, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ORCIN worth?
- ORCIN is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ORCIN mean?
- A crystalline phenolic compound obtained from certain lichens, used in making dyes and in a laboratory test for sugars.
- What letters can be added to ORCIN?
- ORCIN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ORCIN:
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