PHATIC is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. PHATIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PHATIC?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PHATIC is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PHATIC
No single letter turns PHATIC into another word.
How PHATIC scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PHATIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 306,598.
What stands out about PHATIC
- The same 6 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does PHATIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Describing speech whose job is to keep people friendly and at ease, not to pass on facts.
Linguists use phatic for the small talk that fills the start of a conversation: remarks about the weather, a greeting, a polite question nobody expects to be answered in detail. When someone asks how are you in passing, the point is the contact itself. The term became familiar through the study of how language does social work as well as informational work. A phatic phrase can sound empty on paper yet matter a great deal in person.
How PHATIC is used
Used in linguistics and communication studies; seldom heard in everyday talk.
- Nice day, isn't it, is a classic phatic remark.
- Most of their phone call was phatic, with no real news in it.
- The phatic function of a greeting is to open a channel between people.
- She treated the question as phatic and gave a quick smile instead of an answer.
- Texting is full of phatic messages that say little but keep people close.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PHATIC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PHATIC
The 6 tiles of PHATIC in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with PHATIC
1 longer words begin with PHATIC.
Shorter words from the letters in PHATIC
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Common questions about PHATIC
- Is PHATIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PHATIC, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PHATIC worth?
- PHATIC is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PHATIC mean?
- Describing speech whose job is to keep people friendly and at ease, not to pass on facts.
- What letters can be added to PHATIC?
- No single letter can be added to PHATIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PHATIC:
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