SCIATICA is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. SCIATICA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SCIATICA?
| 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: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SCIATICA is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCIATICA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SCIATICA scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in SCIATICA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 2 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SCIATICA has to be built on the board across turns.
What does SCIATICA mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
Pain along the sciatic nerve, felt in the lower back, hip and down the back of the leg.
Sciatica is usually caused by pressure on a nerve root in the lower spine, often from a damaged disc. It is a symptom rather than a disease in itself, and sufferers often describe a sharp, shooting pain that travels down one leg.
How SCIATICA is used
Used in everyday and medical language for leg and back pain of this kind.
- Sitting for hours made his sciatica flare up.
- The doctor suspected sciatica from the pain down her thigh.
- Gentle stretching eased the sciatica over several weeks.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCIATICA and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SCIATICA
2 longer words begin with SCIATICA.
Shorter words from the letters in SCIATICA
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Common questions about SCIATICA
- Is SCIATICA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SCIATICA, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SCIATICA worth?
- SCIATICA is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCIATICA mean?
- Pain along the sciatic nerve, felt in the lower back, hip and down the back of the leg.
- What letters can be added to SCIATICA?
- SCIATICA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of SCIATICA:
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