What ARSENIC Means
- noun: a white powdered poisonous trioxide of arsenic; used in manufacturing glass and as a pesticide (rat poison) and weed killer
- noun: a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and in various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar
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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
ARSENIC is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 R1 S1 E1 N1 I1 C3.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of ARSENIC (3)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In ARSENIC
231 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
6 letter words (21)
5 letter words (67)
4 letter words (78)
3 letter words (50)
2 letter words (15)
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