SEPIC is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. SEPIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SEPIC?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SEPIC is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SEPIC
No single letter turns SEPIC into another word.
How SEPIC scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SEPIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What stands out about SEPIC
- 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 SEPIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
printing
Relating to sepia, the brown pigment made from cuttlefish ink, or having the warm brown tone typical of sepia-toned drawings and photographs.
Sepic describes anything done in the reddish-brown colour associated with sepia ink, which artists once drew from the ink sac of cuttlefish before it became a common dye and later a photographic toning process. A sepic drawing or sepic print has that same warm, faded brown look that many people now associate with old photographs, even when no real sepia pigment was used. The word is rare and mostly turns up in older writing about art and printing rather than in everyday descriptions of colour.
How SEPIC is used
A rare, specialised adjective from art and printing, describing the brown tone of sepia rather than colour in general.
- The exhibition included several sepic drawings from the artist's early sketchbooks.
- Old family photographs often took on a sepic tone as the chemicals faded.
- The illustrator preferred sepic ink for its warm, aged look.
- Critics described the painting's palette as distinctly sepic.
- The printer explained that sepic tones were once achieved with real cuttlefish ink.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SEPIC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SEPIC
The 5 tiles of SEPIC in a different order — 2 found.
Shorter words from the letters in SEPIC
Common questions about SEPIC
- Is SEPIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SEPIC, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SEPIC worth?
- SEPIC is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SEPIC mean?
- Relating to sepia, the brown pigment made from cuttlefish ink, or having the warm brown tone typical of sepia-toned drawings and photographs.
- What letters can be added to SEPIC?
- No single letter can be added to SEPIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SEPIC:
Open SEPIC in the Word Finder