CIRCADIAN is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. CIRCADIAN 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 CIRCADIAN?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CIRCADIAN is to know. It scores 14 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CIRCADIAN
No single letter turns CIRCADIAN into another word.
How CIRCADIAN scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in CIRCADIAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CIRCADIAN has to be built on the board across turns.
What does CIRCADIAN mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Relating to the roughly twenty-four-hour cycle that governs sleep, waking and other processes in living things.
A circadian rhythm keeps ticking even when an animal is kept in constant darkness. Jet lag is the familiar result of that inner clock disagreeing with local time. The word is nearly always paired with rhythm, clock or cycle.
How CIRCADIAN is used
Circadian is used in science and health writing, usually before the noun rhythm.
- Night shifts can upset the body's circadian rhythm.
- The plant opens its leaves on a circadian schedule.
- Bright morning light helps reset a circadian clock.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CIRCADIAN and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CIRCADIAN
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Common questions about CIRCADIAN
- Is CIRCADIAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CIRCADIAN, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CIRCADIAN worth?
- CIRCADIAN is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CIRCADIAN mean?
- Relating to the roughly twenty-four-hour cycle that governs sleep, waking and other processes in living things.
- What letters can be added to CIRCADIAN?
- No single letter can be added to CIRCADIAN to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of CIRCADIAN:
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