TACTION is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. TACTION 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 TACTION?
| 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: 51 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TACTION is to know. It scores 9 from 7 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TACTION
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
tactionsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TACTION scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in TACTION, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 2 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 137,239.
What does TACTION mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
The act of touching something, or the contact that results from it.
Taction is a bookish, old-fashioned word that sits close to the everyday word touch. Older texts on the senses used taction when they wanted a technical term for physical contact rather than for the feeling it produces.
How TACTION is used
Taction appears mostly in older or scholarly writing about the senses and physical contact.
- The old treatise treated taction as the simplest of the five senses.
- Taction between the two surfaces was enough to transfer the powder.
- Early physicians wrote about taction when describing how a patient was examined by hand.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TACTION and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TACTION
1 longer words begin with TACTION.
Shorter words from the letters in TACTION
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Common questions about TACTION
- Is TACTION valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TACTION, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TACTION worth?
- TACTION is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TACTION mean?
- The act of touching something, or the contact that results from it.
- What letters can be added to TACTION?
- TACTION takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of TACTION:
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