SALIC is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. SALIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SALIC?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SALIC is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SALIC
No single letter turns SALIC into another word.
How SALIC scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SALIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What stands out about SALIC
- The same 5 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 SALIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Describing igneous rocks or minerals that are rich in silica and alumina, and therefore typically light in colour.
Geologists coined salic by combining the first letters of silica and alumina, the two substances that dominate this group of minerals, and they set it against the opposite term femic, used for darker rock heavy with iron and magnesium. A granite, for example, is described as salic because its light-coloured minerals, quartz and feldspar, contain little iron, while a dark basalt sits toward the femic end of the same scale. The word happens to look identical to Salic, the capitalised name of an old Frankish legal tradition once used to bar women from inheriting a throne, but the two words share only their spelling and have entirely separate origins. Petrologists still use salic as a quick, practical way to sort igneous rocks by colour and mineral content in the field.
How SALIC is used
A technical term from petrology and mineralogy; unrelated to the identically spelled historical and legal term Salic.
- The geologist classified the pale granite as a salic rock.
- Salic minerals such as quartz and feldspar dominate the sample's light colouring.
- Students learned to distinguish a salic rock from a darker, femic one by eye.
- The field guide listed salic rocks under a separate heading from the basalts.
- Because it was so light in colour, the outcrop was quickly identified as salic.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SALIC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SALIC
The 5 tiles of SALIC in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with SALIC
24 longer words begin with SALIC.
Words with SALIC inside
2 words contain SALIC in the middle. Words that start with SALIC are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SALIC
Common questions about SALIC
- Is SALIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SALIC, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SALIC worth?
- SALIC is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SALIC mean?
- Describing igneous rocks or minerals that are rich in silica and alumina, and therefore typically light in colour.
- What letters can be added to SALIC?
- No single letter can be added to SALIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SALIC:
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