CINQUEFOIL is a valid Scrabble word — 24 points
Yes. CINQUEFOIL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 24 points in Scrabble and 28 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CINQUEFOIL?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CINQUEFOIL is to know. It scores 24 from 10 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CINQUEFOIL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cinquefoilsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CINQUEFOIL scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in CINQUEFOIL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CINQUEFOIL has to be built on the board across turns.
What does CINQUEFOIL mean in Scrabble?
noun
botanyheraldry
A low plant of the rose family with leaves of five leaflets and usually yellow flowers, or a design shaped like five lobes.
The name comes from the French for five leaves. Gardeners grow cinquefoil in rock beds, and medieval masons carved the same pattern into window tracery.
How CINQUEFOIL is used
Cinquefoil is used in botany, architecture and heraldry.
- Yellow cinquefoil spread across the sunny bank.
- The window tracery ended in a carved cinquefoil.
- A cinquefoil appears on the old family crest.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CINQUEFOIL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CINQUEFOIL
1 longer words begin with CINQUEFOIL.
Shorter words from the letters in CINQUEFOIL
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Common questions about CINQUEFOIL
- Is CINQUEFOIL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CINQUEFOIL, where it scores 28 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CINQUEFOIL worth?
- CINQUEFOIL is worth 24 points in Scrabble and 28 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CINQUEFOIL mean?
- A low plant of the rose family with leaves of five leaflets and usually yellow flowers, or a design shaped like five lobes.
- What letters can be added to CINQUEFOIL?
- CINQUEFOIL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of CINQUEFOIL:
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