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Phototactic

p ₃h ₄o ₁t ₁o ₁t ₁a ₁c ₃t ₁i ₁c ₃

About 4 syllables

11 letters · Rare

Scrabble US & Canada : valid
Scrabble UK & worldwide : valid
Words With Friends : valid
Wordle : not valid

What does phototactic mean?

We don’t have a definition for phototactic yet. It appears in the game word lists marked below, so it is playable even without a dictionary meaning. That is common for rare, regional and technical words.

Is PHOTOTACTIC a valid word?

Game / word list	Valid?
Scrabble US & Canada (NWL / TWL)	Yes
Scrabble UK & worldwide (Collins / SOWPODS)	Yes
Words With Friends (ENABLE)	Yes
Wordle (guess list)	No

How many points is PHOTOTACTIC worth?

Scrabble

20 pts

p ₃h ₄o ₁t ₁o ₁t ₁a ₁c ₃t ₁i ₁c ₃

Words With Friends

22 pts

p ₄h ₃o ₁t ₁o ₁t ₁a ₁c ₄t ₁i ₁c ₄

Wordfeud

23 pts

p ₄h ₄o ₁t ₁o ₁t ₁a ₁c ₄t ₁i ₁c ₄

NYT Crossplay

19 pts

p ₃h ₃o ₁t ₁o ₁t ₁a ₁c ₃t ₁i ₁c ₃

Scores are the sum of the tile values, before premium squares or bingo bonuses.

Words from the letters in PHOTOTACTIC

Best shorter words top 30 of 216

See all 216 words made from PHOTOTACTIC

Words that end like PHOTOTACTIC

Common words that share the ending -ACTIC, handy for rhymes, poems and wordplay. Matches are based on spelling, so a few may not rhyme exactly.

syntactic galactic tactic climactic

All words ending in -ACTIC

Phototactic: quick answers

Is PHOTOTACTIC a valid Scrabble word?

Yes. PHOTOTACTIC is accepted in both the North American (NWL) and the international Collins Scrabble word lists, and scores 20 points before board bonuses.

How many points is PHOTOTACTIC worth?

PHOTOTACTIC scores 20 points in Scrabble, 22 in Words With Friends, 23 in Wordfeud and 19 in NYT Crossplay. These are plain tile totals, before any double- or triple-letter and word squares.

What words can you make with the letters in PHOTOTACTIC?

You can make 216 shorter words from PHOTOTACTIC, such as PICACHO, APHOTIC, CHAOTIC, CATCHT. See the full list.