OSMIC is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. OSMIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OSMIC?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OSMIC is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OSMIC
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OSMIC scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in OSMIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does OSMIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
chemistryrare
Relating to or containing osmium, especially in a chemical compound where the metal has a higher valence; also, rarely, relating to smell or odour.
Chemists use osmic mainly to describe compounds of the metal osmium, most notably osmic acid, whose fumes have a famously sharp, penetrating smell. That connection is not a coincidence: osmium itself was named from the Greek word for smell because of the odour given off by its oxide, so the rarer sense of osmic, meaning relating to smell in general, shares the very same root. In everyday writing the chemistry sense is by far the more common of the two, appearing almost only in scientific and laboratory contexts.
How OSMIC is used
Osmic is a technical chemistry term, occasionally extended in older writing to mean relating to smell.
- The laboratory stored the osmic acid in a sealed fume cupboard.
- Osmic staining is used to prepare nerve tissue for microscopy.
- The reaction produced a volatile osmic compound with a sharp odour.
- Early chemists noted the strongly osmic fumes given off during the experiment.
- Textbooks describe osmic oxide as one of osmium's most reactive forms.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OSMIC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of OSMIC
The 5 tiles of OSMIC in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with OSMIC
2 longer words begin with OSMIC.
Words ending in OSMIC
6 words end in OSMIC. Useful as a back hook: play OSMIC onto a word already on the board.
Words with OSMIC inside
5 words contain OSMIC in the middle. Words that start with OSMIC are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in OSMIC
Common questions about OSMIC
- Is OSMIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OSMIC, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OSMIC worth?
- OSMIC is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OSMIC mean?
- Relating to or containing osmium, especially in a chemical compound where the metal has a higher valence; also, rarely, relating to smell or odour.
- What letters can be added to OSMIC?
- OSMIC takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of OSMIC:
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