PINOCYTIC is a valid Scrabble word — 18 points
Yes. PINOCYTIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 21 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PINOCYTIC?
| 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 PINOCYTIC is to know. It scores 18 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PINOCYTIC
No single letter turns PINOCYTIC into another word.
How PINOCYTIC scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in PINOCYTIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| c | 2 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so PINOCYTIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does PINOCYTIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technicalmedical
Relating to the process by which a cell takes in tiny droplets of fluid by pinching off small vesicles from its membrane.
A pinocytic vesicle is a bubble formed when the cell surface folds inward around liquid. The term belongs to cell biology and is rarely met outside textbooks.
How PINOCYTIC is used
Used in biology to describe vesicles or uptake linked to pinocytosis.
- The slide showed a pinocytic vesicle forming at the cell edge.
- Researchers measured pinocytic activity in the cultured cells.
- A pinocytic channel carried fluid into the cytoplasm.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PINOCYTIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in PINOCYTIC
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Common questions about PINOCYTIC
- Is PINOCYTIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PINOCYTIC, where it scores 21 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PINOCYTIC worth?
- PINOCYTIC is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 21 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PINOCYTIC mean?
- Relating to the process by which a cell takes in tiny droplets of fluid by pinching off small vesicles from its membrane.
- What letters can be added to PINOCYTIC?
- No single letter can be added to PINOCYTIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of PINOCYTIC:
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