CILL is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. CILL is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 6 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept CILL?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CILL is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CILL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cillsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CILL scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in CILL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 36,308.
What does CILL mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A sill: the ledge at the bottom of a window or door.
Cill is the building trade's spelling, kept deliberately so that a written instruction cannot be misread as anything else on a noisy site. It appears in specifications, catalogues and drawings and almost nowhere outside them, which makes it one of the clearest cases of a spelling that survives for a practical reason rather than a historical one.
How CILL is used
Countable: a cill, two cills. Chiefly in the building trade; elsewhere the usual spelling is sill.
- The drawing calls it a cill and the invoice does too.
- A rotten cill costs more to put right than the window above it.
- They replaced every cill on the south side.
- The cill takes the water away from the frame.
- Outside the trade nobody writes cill at all.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CILL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CILL
1 longer words begin with CILL.
Words with CILL inside
Showing 24 of 143 words that contain CILL somewhere in the middle. Words that start with CILL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CILL
Common questions about CILL
- Is CILL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CILL, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CILL worth?
- CILL is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CILL mean?
- A sill: the ledge at the bottom of a window or door.
- What letters can be added to CILL?
- CILL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of CILL:
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