VINIC is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. VINIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept VINIC?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VINIC is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VINIC
No single letter turns VINIC into another word.
How VINIC scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in VINIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does VINIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
chemistryarchaic
Of, relating to, or derived from wine, especially in older chemical usage.
Older chemistry texts used vinic as a label for substances obtained from wine or from the fermentation of grapes, most notably vinic alcohol, an old name for ordinary ethanol. The word marked a substance's origin rather than describing wine itself, so a vinic acid was an acid traced back to wine rather than a flavor found in it. Modern chemistry has largely replaced such usage with more precise terms, leaving vinic mostly in historical or specialist writing.
How VINIC is used
Rare outside older chemical literature; modern writing prefers terms like ethanol or wine-derived instead of vinic.
- The old textbook called ordinary ethanol vinic alcohol.
- Chemists once described a vinic acid extracted during fermentation.
- The vinic origin of the compound was noted in the margin of the manuscript.
- Few modern papers still use the vinic terminology of a century ago.
- He traced the vinic alcohol back through several stages of distillation.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VINIC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with VINIC
5 longer words begin with VINIC.
Words ending in VINIC
1 words end in VINIC. Useful as a back hook: play VINIC onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in VINIC
Common questions about VINIC
- Is VINIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts VINIC, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is VINIC worth?
- VINIC is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VINIC mean?
- Of, relating to, or derived from wine, especially in older chemical usage.
- What letters can be added to VINIC?
- No single letter can be added to VINIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of VINIC:
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