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What does emic mean? Is emic a Scrabble word?

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Is emic a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word emic is a Scrabble US word. The word emic is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

E1M3I1C3

Is emic a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word emic is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

E1M3I1C3

Is emic a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word emic is a Words With Friends word. The word emic is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

E1M4I1C4

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4-letter words (2 found)

EMIC,MICE,

3-letter words (2 found)

ICE,MIC,

2-letter words (3 found)

EM,ME,MI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 8 words from emic according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of emic

emic

English

Etymology

Coined by American linguist Kenneth Pike in 1954 from phonemic.

  • Kenneth Lee Pike (1982) Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics, page 44: “Generalizing from phonemics, I coined the term emic in 1954.”

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈiːmɪk/
  • Rhymes: -iːmɪk
  • Hyphenation: e‧mic

Adjective

emic (comparative more emic, superlative most emic)

  1. (social sciences, anthropology) Of or pertaining to the analysis of a cultural system or its features from the perspective of a participant in that culture.

Coordinate terms

  • etic

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • ICEM, ICME, cemi, mice

Source: wiktionary.org