ORGANICISM is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. ORGANICISM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ORGANICISM?
| 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 ORGANICISM is to know. It scores 15 from 10 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ORGANICISM
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
organicismsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ORGANICISM scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in ORGANICISM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ORGANICISM has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ORGANICISM mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The view that a society, the universe or a work of art should be understood as a living whole whose parts depend on one another.
Philosophers, sociologists and critics have all leaned on organicism to argue that the whole is more than a pile of separate pieces. In medicine, an older sense described the belief that disease always starts in a physical organ.
How ORGANICISM is used
Found in philosophy, biology and literary criticism, where organicism is contrasted with mechanistic thinking.
- Romantic poets championed organicism in art.
- Her essay traces organicism from Aristotle to modern systems theory.
- Critics of organicism say it can excuse inequality as natural order.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ORGANICISM and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ORGANICISM
The 10 tiles of ORGANICISM in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ORGANICISM
1 longer words begin with ORGANICISM.
Shorter words from the letters in ORGANICISM
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Common questions about ORGANICISM
- Is ORGANICISM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ORGANICISM, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ORGANICISM worth?
- ORGANICISM is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ORGANICISM mean?
- The view that a society, the universe or a work of art should be understood as a living whole whose parts depend on one another.
- What letters can be added to ORGANICISM?
- ORGANICISM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of ORGANICISM:
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