VRAIC is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. VRAIC is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept VRAIC?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VRAIC is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VRAIC
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
vraicsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How VRAIC scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in VRAIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,728.
What does VRAIC mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialectregional
Seaweed gathered from the shore and used traditionally as fertilizer or fuel, especially in the Channel Islands.
Vraic is a Channel Islands word, rooted in the Norman French once spoken in Jersey and Guernsey, for the kelp and other seaweed that islanders raked from the beach after storms. Farmers spread vraic across their fields as a cheap, salt-rich fertilizer, and in poorer households dried vraic was burned as fuel in place of coal. Gathering vraic was once organized as a communal event, with fixed days set aside for the harvest along the shore. The word survives mainly in island dialect and in older island writing rather than in everyday mainland English.
How VRAIC is used
Regional Channel Islands usage; found in island dialect writing and local history rather than general British English.
- Families walked down to the beach at low tide to gather vraic after the winter storms.
- The farmer spread a thick layer of vraic across the field before the spring planting.
- Dried vraic burned slowly and was once a common fuel on the poorer farms.
- Local by-laws once fixed the exact days when islanders could cut vraic from the rocks.
- Her grandmother still called seaweed vraic, the old island word from her childhood.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VRAIC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of VRAIC
The 5 tiles of VRAIC in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with VRAIC
5 longer words begin with VRAIC.
Shorter words from the letters in VRAIC
Common questions about VRAIC
- Is VRAIC valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and VRAIC is not in it.
- How many points is VRAIC worth?
- VRAIC is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VRAIC mean?
- Seaweed gathered from the shore and used traditionally as fertilizer or fuel, especially in the Channel Islands.
- What letters can be added to VRAIC?
- VRAIC takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of VRAIC:
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