PIANIC is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. PIANIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PIANIC?
| 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 PIANIC is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PIANIC
No single letter turns PIANIC into another word.
How PIANIC scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PIANIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 153,299.
What does PIANIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medical
A medical adjective formed from pian, the French-derived name for yaws, used in older tropical medicine for its sores and stages.
Pianic belongs to the vocabulary of tropical medicine and is almost never used outside it. The disease it points to, pian, causes sores on the skin and is spread by contact in warm, humid regions. Despite the look of the word, it has nothing to do with the piano.
How PIANIC is used
A rare technical adjective found in older medical writing.
- The clinic recorded a pianic rash on several children in the village.
- Doctors described the lesions as pianic in character.
- A pianic infection responds well to a single course of antibiotics.
- Old textbooks mention pianic ulcers among the signs to look for.
- The pianic form of the illness was once common near the coast.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PIANIC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in PIANIC
Common questions about PIANIC
- Is PIANIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PIANIC, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PIANIC worth?
- PIANIC is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PIANIC mean?
- A medical adjective formed from pian, the French-derived name for yaws, used in older tropical medicine for its sores and stages.
- What letters can be added to PIANIC?
- No single letter can be added to PIANIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PIANIC:
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