The word heuristic is a valid scrabble word

3 short excerpts of WikWik.org (WikWik is an online database of words defined in the English, French, Spanish, Italian, and other Wiktionnaries.)

  • heuristic adj. (Of an approach to problem solving, learning, or discovery) That employs a practical method not guaranteed…
  • heuristic adj. (Computing, of a method or algorithm) That provides a useful, but not optimal, solution to a problem…
  • heuristic adj. (Of an argument) That reasons from the value of a method or principle that has been shown by experimental…

33 valid words from 3 definitions

ALGORITHM AN APPROACH ARGUMENT BEEN BUT BY COMPUTING DISCOVERY EMPLOYS EXPERIMENTAL FROM GUARANTEED HAS LEARNING METHOD NOT OF OPTIMAL OR PRACTICAL PRINCIPLE PROBLEM PROVIDES REASONS SHOWN SOLUTION SOLVING THAT THE TO USEFUL VALUE

6 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word.)

HE IS ST TI TIC UR

8 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word.)

CIT CITS EH IT ITS RUE SI SIR

2 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

HEURISTICS HEURISTICALLY

2 anagrams plus one (New words formed with all the letters from the word plus a letter.)

+C ISCHURETIC
+S HEURISTICS

One anagram minus one (New word formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

-U CHRISTIE

Scrabble scoring

  • 14 points.

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  • No anagrams (Word found by changing the order of the letters.)
  • No cousins (Word found by changing only one letter.)
  • No lipograms (Word found when removing only one letter.)
  • No epentheses (Word found when adding only one letter.)
  • Not found in the middle (Word found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)
  • No prefixes (Word found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

Scrabble words — in black are valid world wide — in RED are not valid in North America — in GREEN are valid only in North America.

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