UNCIA is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. UNCIA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept UNCIA?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UNCIA is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UNCIA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How UNCIA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in UNCIA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,364.
What does UNCIA mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
An ancient Roman unit of weight and coinage equal to one twelfth of the standard as or libra, the historical source of the English words ounce and inch.
Roman merchants and officials used the uncia as a basic fraction for dividing both weight and money into twelve equal parts, much as later systems divided a pound into ounces or a foot into inches. The word traveled into English through two separate paths, giving the modern language both ounce, a unit of weight, and inch, a unit of length, from the very same Latin root. Historians and numismatists still use uncia when describing ancient Roman coins and measurement systems.
How UNCIA is used
A historical term, encountered mainly in discussions of ancient Roman weights, coinage, and measurement.
- The museum labeled the bronze coin as an uncia.
- Roman recipes sometimes measured ingredients by the uncia.
- Twelve uncia made up one full as in Roman coinage.
- Scholars traced both ounce and inch back to the uncia.
- The inscription recorded a debt of several uncia.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UNCIA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of UNCIA
The 5 tiles of UNCIA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with UNCIA
4 longer words begin with UNCIA.
Words ending in UNCIA
1 words end in UNCIA. Useful as a back hook: play UNCIA onto a word already on the board.
Words with UNCIA inside
Showing 24 of 55 words that contain UNCIA somewhere in the middle. Words that start with UNCIA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in UNCIA
Common questions about UNCIA
- Is UNCIA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts UNCIA, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is UNCIA worth?
- UNCIA is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UNCIA mean?
- An ancient Roman unit of weight and coinage equal to one twelfth of the standard as or libra, the historical source of the English words ounce and inch.
- What letters can be added to UNCIA?
- UNCIA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of UNCIA:
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