PROTOPATHIC is a valid Scrabble word — 20 points
Yes. PROTOPATHIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 20 points in Scrabble and 22 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PROTOPATHIC?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PROTOPATHIC is to know. It scores 20 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PROTOPATHIC
No single letter turns PROTOPATHIC into another word.
How PROTOPATHIC scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in PROTOPATHIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 2 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so PROTOPATHIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does PROTOPATHIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technicalmedical
Describing nerve fibres or sensations that detect only rough stimuli such as pain, heat and cold, with little fine detail.
An old model of the nervous system contrasted protopathic feeling with epicritic feeling, which discriminates light touch precisely. The idea explains why a burn can feel vague and widespread rather than sharply located. The term now appears mostly in history of neurology and in specialist textbooks.
How PROTOPATHIC is used
A specialist term from neurology, often set against epicritic.
- Protopathic sensation tells you something hurts but not exactly where.
- The nerve injury left only protopathic feeling in her fingertips.
- Early neurologists described protopathic and epicritic systems in the skin.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PROTOPATHIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PROTOPATHIC
The 11 tiles of PROTOPATHIC in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in PROTOPATHIC
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Common questions about PROTOPATHIC
- Is PROTOPATHIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PROTOPATHIC, where it scores 22 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PROTOPATHIC worth?
- PROTOPATHIC is worth 20 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PROTOPATHIC mean?
- Describing nerve fibres or sensations that detect only rough stimuli such as pain, heat and cold, with little fine detail.
- What letters can be added to PROTOPATHIC?
- No single letter can be added to PROTOPATHIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of PROTOPATHIC:
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