The word placebo 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.)

  • placebo n. (Medicine) A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.
  • placebo n. (Roman Catholicism) The vespers sung in the office for the dead.
  • (In German) Placebo S. Medikament, das keinen Wirkstoff enthält, aber einem existierenden…

20 valid words from 3 definitions

ABER ACTIVE AN CATHOLICISM CONTAINING DAS DEAD DUMMY FOR IN INERT INGREDIENTS MEDICINE NO OFFICE ROMAN SUNG THE TREATMENT VESPERS

6 invalid words from 3 definitions

EINEM ENTHALT EXISTIERENDEN KEINEN MEDIKAMENT WIRKSTOFF

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

ACE BO LA LAC LACE PLACE

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

AL ALP BE CAL CALP OB OBE

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

PLACEBOS PLACEBOES

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

+I COPIABLE
+S PLACEBOS
+Y COPYABLE

Scrabble scoring

  • 13 points.

Probability in scrabble (Probability to draw 7 letters at the beginning of the game to build the word.)

  • Joker allowed, 1 in 84442 chance.
  • Joker not allowed, 1 in 578977 chance.

Other languages

  • Valid: French German Spanish Italian Romanian
  • (In French) PLACÉBO n.m. Pharm. Substance inactive substituée à un médicament.
  • (In Spanish) PLACEBO m. Med. Sustancia que, careciendo por sí misma de acción terapéutica, produce algún efecto curativo en el enfermo, si este la recibe convencido de que esa sustancia posee realmente tal acción.

Categories without words

  • 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.)
  • No anagrams can be formed by removing a letter (New word formed with all the letters of the word minus a letter.)

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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