RACHITIC is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. RACHITIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RACHITIC?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RACHITIC is to know. It scores 15 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RACHITIC
No single letter turns RACHITIC into another word.
How RACHITIC scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in RACHITIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 2 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so RACHITIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does RACHITIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medical
Suffering from the bone-softening childhood disease caused by a lack of vitamin D.
Rachitic is the clinical cousin of the everyday word rickety, and it is the one doctors use for the disease itself. Old medical reports describe a rachitic child by bowed legs and a swollen chest, and the word can also stretch to anything feeble.
How RACHITIC is used
Rachitic is mostly medical or historical, with an occasional figurative use.
- The rachitic child had bowed legs and a soft skull.
- Cod liver oil was given to prevent rachitic deformity.
- The nineteenth-century report described a rachitic population in the crowded slums.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RACHITIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in RACHITIC
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Common questions about RACHITIC
- Is RACHITIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RACHITIC, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RACHITIC worth?
- RACHITIC is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RACHITIC mean?
- Suffering from the bone-softening childhood disease caused by a lack of vitamin D.
- What letters can be added to RACHITIC?
- No single letter can be added to RACHITIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of RACHITIC:
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