PANACEAN is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. PANACEAN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PANACEAN?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PANACEAN is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PANACEAN
No single letter turns PANACEAN into another word.
How PANACEAN scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in PANACEAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 3 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so PANACEAN has to be built on the board across turns.
What does PANACEAN mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Offering a remedy for every ill, or seeming to solve all problems at once.
Anything called panacean promises too much, whether a medicine, a policy or a gadget. The word is usually found in essays and reviews that doubt such miracle claims. It echoes Panacea, the Greek goddess of healing.
How PANACEAN is used
Used in formal writing, often sceptically, about supposed cure-all solutions.
- He distrusted any panacean claim made on a bottle of tonic.
- The minister offered a panacean plan that fixed nothing.
- Few believe in panacean answers to complex social problems.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PANACEAN and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in PANACEAN
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Common questions about PANACEAN
- Is PANACEAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PANACEAN, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PANACEAN worth?
- PANACEAN is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PANACEAN mean?
- Offering a remedy for every ill, or seeming to solve all problems at once.
- What letters can be added to PANACEAN?
- No single letter can be added to PANACEAN to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of PANACEAN:
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