CICALA is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. CICALA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CICALA?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CICALA is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CICALA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cicalasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CICALA scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CICALA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 919,794.
What does CICALA mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
A large winged insect whose males make a loud, shrill droning song in hot weather.
Cicala is the Italian form of the name, and English writers borrow it mainly for a Mediterranean flavour in poems, travel prose and translations. The insect spends years underground as a nymph before climbing into trees for a short adult life. Its song comes from drum-like organs on the abdomen and is, for many people, the sound of a southern summer. The more common English spelling of the name ends in a, with a different vowel before the final syllable.
How CICALA is used
Literary or Italian-flavoured variant; ordinary English prefers another spelling.
- A single cicala sang from the olive tree all afternoon.
- The poem compares the poet to a cicala that sings until it dies.
- Each cicala left its brittle shell clinging to the bark.
- In the Tuscan noon, the cicala drowned out every conversation.
- She learned that a cicala may live underground for years.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CICALA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CICALA
The 6 tiles of CICALA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CICALA
1 longer words begin with CICALA.
Shorter words from the letters in CICALA
Common questions about CICALA
- Is CICALA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CICALA, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CICALA worth?
- CICALA is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CICALA mean?
- A large winged insect whose males make a loud, shrill droning song in hot weather.
- What letters can be added to CICALA?
- CICALA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CICALA:
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