VOMICA is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. VOMICA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept VOMICA?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VOMICA is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VOMICA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How VOMICA scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in VOMICA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 229,948.
What stands out about VOMICA
- The letters of VOMICA run in reverse alphabetical order.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does VOMICA mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
A hollow cavity in the lung filled with pus, or the pus that comes out of it.
Vomica is a medical word for an abscess cavity, most often in the lung, and for the matter coughed up when it bursts. It is a Latin word meaning an ulcer or boil, related to the verb that gives us vomit. Today it appears mainly in older medical texts, and in the name of the drug nux vomica.
How VOMICA is used
Rare medical and historical term.
- The X-ray revealed a large vomica in the upper lung.
- Old textbooks describe how a vomica could burst into the airway.
- The patient coughed up pus after the vomica opened.
- Nux vomica gets the second half of its name from a different root.
- Surgeons once drained a vomica through the chest wall.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VOMICA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with VOMICA
2 longer words begin with VOMICA.
Shorter words from the letters in VOMICA
Common questions about VOMICA
- Is VOMICA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts VOMICA, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is VOMICA worth?
- VOMICA is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VOMICA mean?
- A hollow cavity in the lung filled with pus, or the pus that comes out of it.
- What letters can be added to VOMICA?
- VOMICA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of VOMICA:
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