PANMICTIC is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. PANMICTIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 22 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PANMICTIC?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PANMICTIC is to know. It scores 17 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PANMICTIC
No single letter turns PANMICTIC into another word.
How PANMICTIC scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in PANMICTIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| c | 2 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so PANMICTIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does PANMICTIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Describing a breeding population in which any individual can mate with any other at random.
Geneticists use panmictic as a simplifying assumption when modelling how gene frequencies shift. Real herds and flocks are rarely fully panmictic, because distance and social groups limit who meets whom.
How PANMICTIC is used
Appears almost only in biology texts, usually before population.
- The model assumes a panmictic population of fixed size.
- Isolated island groups are far from panmictic.
- A panmictic species shows little genetic difference between regions.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PANMICTIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in PANMICTIC
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Common questions about PANMICTIC
- Is PANMICTIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PANMICTIC, where it scores 22 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PANMICTIC worth?
- PANMICTIC is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PANMICTIC mean?
- Describing a breeding population in which any individual can mate with any other at random.
- What letters can be added to PANMICTIC?
- No single letter can be added to PANMICTIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of PANMICTIC:
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