PICAL is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. PICAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PICAL?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PICAL is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PICAL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How PICAL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PICAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does PICAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
printingtechnical
Relating to pica, a unit of type size used in printing, roughly equal to twelve points.
Printers and typesetters use pical to describe measurements or spacing expressed in pica units, a system that predates modern digital point sizes but is still referenced in professional printing and page layout. A pical measurement might describe the width of a column or the depth of a page, since pica offered a convenient standard before software made type sizing largely automatic. The term stays confined to specialist printing and typography contexts rather than general publishing vocabulary.
How PICAL is used
Pical is a narrow technical term, found mainly in older printing manuals and specialist typesetting discussions.
- The manual gave column widths in pical measurements rather than inches.
- Old typesetting guides relied on pical spacing for consistent layout.
- He converted the pical figures into modern point sizes for the software.
- The printer's ruler still showed pical divisions along one edge.
- Her thesis on printing history explained the pical system in detail.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PICAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PICAL
The 5 tiles of PICAL in a different order — 1 found.
Words ending in PICAL
Showing 24 of 56 words that end in PICAL. Useful as a back hook: play PICAL onto a word already on the board.
Words with PICAL inside
Showing 24 of 72 words that contain PICAL somewhere in the middle. Words that start with PICAL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PICAL
Common questions about PICAL
- Is PICAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PICAL, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PICAL worth?
- PICAL is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PICAL mean?
- Relating to pica, a unit of type size used in printing, roughly equal to twelve points.
- What letters can be added to PICAL?
- PICAL takes 2 hooks: 2 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PICAL:
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