PARANOIAC is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. PARANOIAC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PARANOIAC?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PARANOIAC is to know. It scores 13 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PARANOIAC
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
paranoiacsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PARANOIAC scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in PARANOIAC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 3 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so PARANOIAC has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about PARANOIAC
- PARANOIAC runs three vowels in a row, which almost no English word does.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does PARANOIAC mean in Scrabble?
noun
A person who suffers from paranoia, an unfounded belief that others mean harm.
A paranoiac is defined by the pattern of thought rather than by any single worry. In casual speech the label is thrown at anyone who is merely suspicious, which stretches it beyond its clinical sense. The spelling paranoic is the shorter variant of the same word.
How PARANOIAC is used
Found in medical and psychological writing, and loosely in everyday speech about a very distrustful person.
- The doctor described the patient as a paranoiac who feared every visitor.
- Only a paranoiac would check the locks six times before leaving.
- The novel's narrator is a paranoiac, so nothing he reports can be trusted.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PARANOIAC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PARANOIAC
1 longer words begin with PARANOIAC.
Shorter words from the letters in PARANOIAC
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Common questions about PARANOIAC
- Is PARANOIAC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PARANOIAC, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PARANOIAC worth?
- PARANOIAC is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PARANOIAC mean?
- A person who suffers from paranoia, an unfounded belief that others mean harm.
- What letters can be added to PARANOIAC?
- PARANOIAC takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of PARANOIAC:
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