CEPHEID is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. CEPHEID is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CEPHEID?
| 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: 57 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CEPHEID is to know. It scores 15 from 7 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CEPHEID
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cepheidsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CEPHEID scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in CEPHEID, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 842,149.
What does CEPHEID mean in Scrabble?
noun
A pulsating variable star whose brightness rises and falls in a steady cycle tied to its true luminosity.
Astronomers value a cepheid because the length of its cycle reveals how bright it really is, so comparing that with how bright it looks gives its distance. This made the cepheid a standard yardstick for measuring other galaxies.
How CEPHEID is used
The word cepheid appears in astronomy writing about distance measurement and variable stars.
- Each cepheid in the distant galaxy was timed over several weeks to find its period.
- A single cepheid can be enough to estimate how far away a star cluster lies.
- The survey catalogued every cepheid visible in the southern sky.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CEPHEID and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CEPHEID
1 longer words begin with CEPHEID.
Shorter words from the letters in CEPHEID
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Common questions about CEPHEID
- Is CEPHEID valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CEPHEID, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CEPHEID worth?
- CEPHEID is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CEPHEID mean?
- A pulsating variable star whose brightness rises and falls in a steady cycle tied to its true luminosity.
- What letters can be added to CEPHEID?
- CEPHEID takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of CEPHEID:
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