CETYL is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. CETYL is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept CETYL?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CETYL is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CETYL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CETYL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CETYL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does CETYL mean in Scrabble?
noun
chemistry
A chemical radical with the formula C16H33, found combined in cetyl alcohol and related compounds derived from spermaceti wax.
Chemists named cetyl for the whale oil, cetaceum, in which the related compounds were first identified, long before the radical itself could be isolated on its own. Today the name mostly survives in cetyl alcohol, a common thickening and emollient ingredient in cosmetics and skin creams.
How CETYL is used
Technical chemistry term, encountered chiefly in the compound name cetyl alcohol on ingredient lists.
- The cream listed cetyl alcohol among its softening ingredients.
- Early chemists inferred cetyl before they could isolate it.
- Cetyl compounds are named after the whale oil that first yielded them.
- The lab report referred to the cetyl radical by its formula.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CETYL and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CETYL
1 longer words begin with CETYL.
Words ending in CETYL
3 words end in CETYL. Useful as a back hook: play CETYL onto a word already on the board.
Words with CETYL inside
Showing 24 of 25 words that contain CETYL somewhere in the middle. Words that start with CETYL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CETYL
Common questions about CETYL
- Is CETYL valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and CETYL is not in it.
- How many points is CETYL worth?
- CETYL is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CETYL mean?
- A chemical radical with the formula C16H33, found combined in cetyl alcohol and related compounds derived from spermaceti wax.
- What letters can be added to CETYL?
- CETYL takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CETYL:
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