RICTUS is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. RICTUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RICTUS?
| 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: 25 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RICTUS is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RICTUS
No single letter turns RICTUS into another word.
How RICTUS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in RICTUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 114,974.
What stands out about RICTUS
- The same 6 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does RICTUS mean in Scrabble?
noun
A fixed, gaping grin or grimace, or the wide opening of a mouth or beak.
Rictus comes straight from Latin, where it meant an open mouth. Writers lean on it for a smile that is stretched and joyless, as on the face of a person in pain or a corpse, so a rictus is rarely friendly. In anatomy it still names the gape of a bird, which is why the related adjective rictal is used for the beak.
How RICTUS is used
Literary; usually joined to grin or smile to suggest strain or horror.
- His face froze in a rictus of terror.
- The mask wore a painted rictus that unsettled the children.
- A rictus replaced her usual warm smile.
- The old photograph showed a rictus rather than a laugh.
- Pain pulled his mouth into a rictus.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RICTUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of RICTUS
The 6 tiles of RICTUS in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with RICTUS
1 longer words begin with RICTUS.
Shorter words from the letters in RICTUS
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Common questions about RICTUS
- Is RICTUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RICTUS, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RICTUS worth?
- RICTUS is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RICTUS mean?
- A fixed, gaping grin or grimace, or the wide opening of a mouth or beak.
- What letters can be added to RICTUS?
- No single letter can be added to RICTUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of RICTUS:
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