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pica

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Is pica a Scrabble word?

Yes, pica is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 8 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of pica?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (pathology, usually uncountable) A disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand.Examples: "The three most common nonfood picas were eating of strings and rags; feces, vomit, and urine; and paper, cigarettes, and soil."Synonyms: allotriophagy, chthonophagia, cittosis, geophagy, piqueuncountableusually

2. (countable) A magpie.countable

noun (English)

1. (typography, printing, uncountable) A size of type between small pica and English, now standardized as 12-point.Examples: "I had been at Baldwin's before dinner in consequence of a letter from him which showed me that, by using a pica instead of an English letter in printing my book, I might comprise it within such a number of sheets as a guinea-volume should contain […]."uncountable

2. (typography, uncountable, usually with qualifier) A font of this size.uncountableusually

3. (typography, countable) A unit of length equivalent to 12 points, officially ³⁵⁄₈₃ cm (0.166 in) after 1886 but now (computing) ¹⁄₆ in.countable

4. (uncommon, ecclesiastical) A pie or directory: the book directing Roman Catholic observance of saints' days and other feasts under various calendars.countableuncommonuncountable

noun (English)

1. (space flight) Abbreviation of phenolic impregnated carbon ablator.abbreviationalt-ofcountableuncountable

2. (anatomy) Initialism of posterior inferior cerebellar artery.abbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialismuncountable

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "pica"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "pica"?

Scrabble
8 points
P3
I1
C3
A1
Words With Friends
10 points
P4
I1
C4
A1

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