SCORBUTIC is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. SCORBUTIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SCORBUTIC?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SCORBUTIC is to know. It scores 15 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCORBUTIC
No single letter turns SCORBUTIC into another word.
How SCORBUTIC scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in SCORBUTIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 2 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SCORBUTIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does SCORBUTIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medicalrare
Relating to scurvy or suffering from that vitamin-deficiency disease.
Scorbutic is a learned medical adjective found mostly in old accounts of long sea voyages. Sailors with bleeding gums and weak limbs were described this way before the cause of scurvy was understood.
How SCORBUTIC is used
Scorbutic belongs to historical or medical prose and is almost never heard in casual talk.
- The ship surgeon recorded a scorbutic crew by the third month at sea.
- Scorbutic symptoms vanished once fresh limes were added to the diet.
- He wrote about the scorbutic gums of the starving explorers.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCORBUTIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SCORBUTIC
1 longer words begin with SCORBUTIC.
Shorter words from the letters in SCORBUTIC
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Common questions about SCORBUTIC
- Is SCORBUTIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SCORBUTIC, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SCORBUTIC worth?
- SCORBUTIC is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCORBUTIC mean?
- Relating to scurvy or suffering from that vitamin-deficiency disease.
- What letters can be added to SCORBUTIC?
- No single letter can be added to SCORBUTIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of SCORBUTIC:
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