CILICE is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. CILICE 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 CILICE?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CILICE is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CILICE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cilicesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CILICE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CILICE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 689,845.
What does CILICE mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
A coarse shirt or band of rough hair worn against the skin as a form of religious penance.
A cilice was made of goat hair or similar scratchy cloth, and wearing it was meant to cause steady discomfort as an act of devotion. Medieval monks, nuns and later devout laypeople used it, and some versions carried small barbs on a belt or garter worn around the thigh. The word comes from the Latin cilicium, the name of a rough cloth originally woven in the region of Cilicia. Today it survives mostly in historical and religious writing.
How CILICE is used
Historical and religious; rarely used outside writing about penitential practice.
- The hermit wore a cilice beneath his plain robe.
- A cilice of rough goat hair was found among the saint's relics.
- Some orders of monks once required the cilice during Lent.
- The novel describes a character who tightens her cilice at night.
- Visitors saw the cilice displayed in the museum case.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CILICE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CILICE
The 6 tiles of CILICE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CILICE
1 longer words begin with CILICE.
Shorter words from the letters in CILICE
Common questions about CILICE
- Is CILICE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CILICE, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CILICE worth?
- CILICE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CILICE mean?
- A coarse shirt or band of rough hair worn against the skin as a form of religious penance.
- What letters can be added to CILICE?
- CILICE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CILICE:
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