CICELY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. CICELY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CICELY?
| 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 CICELY is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CICELY
No single letter turns CICELY into another word.
How CICELY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CICELY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,380 thousand.
What does CICELY mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A tall, sweet-smelling plant of the parsley family, grown for its leaves and seeds.
Cicely, often called sweet cicely, has feathery fern-like leaves and clusters of small white flowers in early summer. Cooks have used its aniseed-scented leaves to flavour salads and to soften the sharpness of stewed fruit. The name also exists as a girl's given name, but the plant is the sense that word lists accept.
How CICELY is used
Botanical and gardening term; usually met in the phrase sweet cicely.
- Cicely grows wild along the shady edge of the lane.
- She chopped a handful of cicely into the salad.
- The cicely was in white flower by the end of May.
- A patch of cicely scented the whole corner of the garden.
- He cooked the rhubarb with a few leaves of cicely.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CICELY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CICELY
Common questions about CICELY
- Is CICELY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CICELY, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CICELY worth?
- CICELY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CICELY mean?
- A tall, sweet-smelling plant of the parsley family, grown for its leaves and seeds.
- What letters can be added to CICELY?
- No single letter can be added to CICELY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CICELY:
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