PUDIC is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. PUDIC 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 PUDIC?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PUDIC is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PUDIC
No single letter turns PUDIC into another word.
How PUDIC scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PUDIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does PUDIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medicaltechnical
Relating to the pudendum, the external genital organs; used chiefly in anatomical and medical description.
Pudic appears almost entirely in anatomy and medicine, where it labels nerves, arteries, and other structures connected to the pudendum, the region of the external genital organs. The internal pudic artery and internal pudic nerve are older names for vessels and nerves now more commonly called pudendal in modern textbooks, so pudic survives mainly in older medical writing. The word traces back to Latin pudere, to feel shame, the same root that gives English words like pudency and impudent, since these organs were traditionally referred to only indirectly. Outside clinical writing, pudic is rarely used at all.
How PUDIC is used
Technical and largely historical medical usage; modern anatomy texts generally prefer pudendal for the same structures.
- The old textbook labelled the vessel as the internal pudic artery.
- Surgeons once used pudic rather than pudendal in their notes.
- The anatomy atlas traced the pudic nerve through the pelvic floor.
- Historic medical papers describe the pudic region in guarded, indirect language.
- Later editions replaced every pudic reference with the modern term pudendal.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PUDIC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PUDIC
The 5 tiles of PUDIC in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with PUDIC
2 longer words begin with PUDIC.
Words with PUDIC inside
2 words contain PUDIC in the middle. Words that start with PUDIC are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PUDIC
Common questions about PUDIC
- Is PUDIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PUDIC, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PUDIC worth?
- PUDIC is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PUDIC mean?
- Relating to the pudendum, the external genital organs; used chiefly in anatomical and medical description.
- What letters can be added to PUDIC?
- No single letter can be added to PUDIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PUDIC:
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