ORTHOEPIC is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. ORTHOEPIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ORTHOEPIC?
| 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 ORTHOEPIC is to know. It scores 16 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ORTHOEPIC
No single letter turns ORTHOEPIC into another word.
How ORTHOEPIC scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in ORTHOEPIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 2 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ORTHOEPIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ORTHOEPIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
formal
Concerned with the accepted way of pronouncing words in a language.
An orthoepic guide settles how a word should be said aloud, not how it is spelled. Dictionaries and broadcasting style books are the usual places where orthoepic advice appears. Linguists use the term for rules about sound, which sets it apart from grammar or meaning.
How ORTHOEPIC is used
Found in scholarly or reference writing about correct pronunciation, and rarely in everyday speech.
- The editor added an orthoepic note explaining where the stress falls.
- She consulted an orthoepic dictionary before reading the poem aloud.
- Their orthoepic rules differ from the way people actually talk.
- An orthoepic debate broke out over how to say the foreign name.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ORTHOEPIC and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ORTHOEPIC
2 longer words begin with ORTHOEPIC.
Shorter words from the letters in ORTHOEPIC
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Common questions about ORTHOEPIC
- Is ORTHOEPIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ORTHOEPIC, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ORTHOEPIC worth?
- ORTHOEPIC is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ORTHOEPIC mean?
- Concerned with the accepted way of pronouncing words in a language.
- What letters can be added to ORTHOEPIC?
- No single letter can be added to ORTHOEPIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of ORTHOEPIC:
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