VAC is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. VAC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept VAC?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VAC is to know. It scores 8 from 3 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VAC
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
vacsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How VAC scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in VAC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,492.
What does VAC mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
A holiday from a university, or a vacuum cleaner.
Two clippings share this spelling and neither is formal: vac for a vacation belongs to British university speech, while vac for the machine is what everybody says while using one. Which is meant is settled by the verb — you go on one and push the other.
How VAC is used
Countable: a vac, two vacs. Informal.
- He worked through the long vac and saved nothing.
- The vac is broken and the carpet shows it.
- A vac in October is a week and in July is three months.
- She ran the vac round the whole flat in ten minutes.
- The word vac means two things and confuses nobody.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VAC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with VAC
Showing 24 of 94 words that begin with VAC.
Words ending in VAC
5 words end in VAC. Useful as a back hook: play VAC onto a word already on the board.
Words with VAC inside
Showing 24 of 71 words that contain VAC somewhere in the middle. Words that start with VAC are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Common questions about VAC
- Is VAC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts VAC, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is VAC worth?
- VAC is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VAC mean?
- A holiday from a university, or a vacuum cleaner.
- What letters can be added to VAC?
- VAC takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of VAC:
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