POULTICE is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. POULTICE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept POULTICE?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful POULTICE is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POULTICE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How POULTICE scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in POULTICE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so POULTICE has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about POULTICE
- All 8 letters of POULTICE are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does POULTICE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A soft, moist mass of herbs, bran or similar material, often heated, spread on cloth and pressed on the body to ease pain or inflammation.
Poultices belong to traditional home medicine, where a warm wrapped paste was laid over a boil, bruise or aching chest. The word can also be a verb, meaning to dress a wound in this way.
How POULTICE is used
Poultice is used for a folk or old-fashioned remedy, and also as a verb.
- Grandmother laid a warm poultice on his swollen knee.
- A bread poultice was said to draw out infection.
- They would poultice the wound with crushed leaves.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POULTICE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of POULTICE
The 8 tiles of POULTICE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with POULTICE
2 longer words begin with POULTICE.
Shorter words from the letters in POULTICE
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Common questions about POULTICE
- Is POULTICE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POULTICE, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POULTICE worth?
- POULTICE is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POULTICE mean?
- A soft, moist mass of herbs, bran or similar material, often heated, spread on cloth and pressed on the body to ease pain or inflammation.
- What letters can be added to POULTICE?
- POULTICE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of POULTICE:
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