OTOTOXIC is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. OTOTOXIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OTOTOXIC?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OTOTOXIC is to know. It scores 17 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OTOTOXIC
No single letter turns OTOTOXIC into another word.
How OTOTOXIC scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in OTOTOXIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 3 | 8 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so OTOTOXIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does OTOTOXIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medicaltechnical
Capable of damaging the ear, especially the hearing or balance organs of the inner ear.
Doctors watch for ototoxic effects when a drug is known to harm the cochlea or the nerve that carries sound to the brain. The damage can show up as ringing, hearing loss or dizziness, and it is sometimes permanent.
How OTOTOXIC is used
Used mainly in medicine and pharmacology to describe drugs and chemicals that injure the ear.
- Some strong antibiotics are ototoxic, so patients on them get regular hearing tests.
- The ototoxic side effects of the treatment were explained before surgery.
- Loud noise and certain solvents can be ototoxic over many years.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OTOTOXIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OTOTOXIC
2 longer words begin with OTOTOXIC.
Shorter words from the letters in OTOTOXIC
Common questions about OTOTOXIC
- Is OTOTOXIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OTOTOXIC, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OTOTOXIC worth?
- OTOTOXIC is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OTOTOXIC mean?
- Capable of damaging the ear, especially the hearing or balance organs of the inner ear.
- What letters can be added to OTOTOXIC?
- No single letter can be added to OTOTOXIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of OTOTOXIC:
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