PHYLIC is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. PHYLIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PHYLIC?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PHYLIC is to know. It scores 16 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PHYLIC
No single letter turns PHYLIC into another word.
How PHYLIC scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PHYLIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,070 thousand.
What stands out about PHYLIC
- PHYLIC gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does PHYLIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technicalrare
Relating to a phylum, the major group used in classifying living things or languages.
Biologists reach for phylic when a feature belongs to the broad group level rather than to a single species. It is a specialist term and turns up far less often than the noun it is built from.
How PHYLIC is used
Appears in technical writing about classification and relatedness.
- The study compared phylic traits shared by all members of the group.
- A phylic relationship between the two language families remains unproven.
- Such a phylic division reflects deep ancestry rather than recent change.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PHYLIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in PHYLIC
Common questions about PHYLIC
- Is PHYLIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PHYLIC, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PHYLIC worth?
- PHYLIC is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PHYLIC mean?
- Relating to a phylum, the major group used in classifying living things or languages.
- What letters can be added to PHYLIC?
- No single letter can be added to PHYLIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PHYLIC:
Open PHYLIC in the Word Finder