CISTRONIC is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. CISTRONIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CISTRONIC?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CISTRONIC is to know. It scores 13 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CISTRONIC
No single letter turns CISTRONIC into another word.
How CISTRONIC scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in CISTRONIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CISTRONIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about CISTRONIC
- CISTRONIC begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CISTRONIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Relating to a cistron, a stretch of DNA that codes for one protein chain.
Geneticists use cistronic when talking about a single functional gene unit and how it is read. The term is far rarer than the noun cistron.
How CISTRONIC is used
The word cistronic is confined to genetics papers and textbooks.
- The study mapped the cistronic structure of the virus.
- A cistronic region encodes a single enzyme.
- Mutations altered the cistronic sequence.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CISTRONIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CISTRONIC
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Common questions about CISTRONIC
- Is CISTRONIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CISTRONIC, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CISTRONIC worth?
- CISTRONIC is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CISTRONIC mean?
- Relating to a cistron, a stretch of DNA that codes for one protein chain.
- What letters can be added to CISTRONIC?
- No single letter can be added to CISTRONIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of CISTRONIC:
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