CICADA is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. CICADA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CICADA?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CICADA is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CICADA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CICADA scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CICADA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 919,794.
What does CICADA mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A large winged insect with transparent wings, the male of which makes a loud, shrill droning sound.
The cicada spends most of its life as a nymph underground, sometimes for years, and then climbs a tree to shed its skin and become an adult. The droning comes from drum-like organs on the male's abdomen and is one of the typical sounds of a hot summer in warm countries. Some North American kinds appear in huge groups at intervals of thirteen or seventeen years.
How CICADA is used
Common in nature writing; the variant cicala is rarer.
- A cicada shrilled from the olive tree all afternoon.
- The empty shell of a cicada clung to the bark.
- Children collected each cicada they could find.
- The song of the cicada drowned out our conversation.
- Every seventeen years the cicada emerges in great numbers.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CICADA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CICADA
2 longer words begin with CICADA.
Shorter words from the letters in CICADA
Common questions about CICADA
- Is CICADA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CICADA, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CICADA worth?
- CICADA is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CICADA mean?
- A large winged insect with transparent wings, the male of which makes a loud, shrill droning sound.
- What letters can be added to CICADA?
- CICADA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CICADA:
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