CICISBEO is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. CICISBEO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CICISBEO?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CICISBEO is to know. It scores 14 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CICISBEO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cicisbeosChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CICISBEO scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in CICISBEO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CICISBEO has to be built on the board across turns.
What does CICISBEO mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
The acknowledged male companion of a married woman, especially in eighteenth-century Italy.
A cicisbeo escorted the lady to parties and the theatre, and the arrangement was socially accepted. The word suggests a courtly custom more than a scandal. It survives in historical and literary writing.
How CICISBEO is used
Cicisbeo is found in histories and novels about Italian society.
- Every fashionable wife in Venice had a cicisbeo.
- The cicisbeo carried her fan and her shawl.
- Her husband tolerated the cicisbeo without complaint.
- The novelist mocked the vain cicisbeo at the opera.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CICISBEO and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CICISBEO
1 longer words begin with CICISBEO.
Shorter words from the letters in CICISBEO
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Common questions about CICISBEO
- Is CICISBEO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CICISBEO, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CICISBEO worth?
- CICISBEO is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CICISBEO mean?
- The acknowledged male companion of a married woman, especially in eighteenth-century Italy.
- What letters can be added to CICISBEO?
- CICISBEO takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of CICISBEO:
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