CEL is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. CEL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CEL?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CEL is to know. It scores 5 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CEL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CEL scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in CEL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,684.
What does CEL mean in Scrabble?
noun
A sheet of transparent film used in hand-drawn animation.
Cel is clipped from celluloid and names the single drawn frame that hand animation was built on. Digital work ended the practice during the 1990s, and original cels became collectable in exactly the way the studios never planned for.
How CEL is used
Countable: a cel, two cels.
- A cel from that film sells for more than the film earned.
- The word cel is clipped from celluloid.
- Each cel is one frame and there are twelve a second.
- Studios threw cels away for forty years.
- A cel is transparent so the background shows through.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CEL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CEL
Showing 24 of 139 words that begin with CEL.
Words ending in CEL
24 words end in CEL. Useful as a back hook: play CEL onto a word already on the board.
Words with CEL inside
Showing 24 of 489 words that contain CEL somewhere in the middle. Words that start with CEL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CEL
Common questions about CEL
- Is CEL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CEL, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CEL worth?
- CEL is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CEL mean?
- A sheet of transparent film used in hand-drawn animation.
- What letters can be added to CEL?
- CEL takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of CEL:
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