CISTUS is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. CISTUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CISTUS?
| 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: 24 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CISTUS is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CISTUS
No single letter turns CISTUS into another word.
How CISTUS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CISTUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 459,897.
What does CISTUS mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
Any of a group of small evergreen shrubs from southern Europe and North Africa, grown for their large white, pink or red flowers and often called rockrose.
Cistus shrubs thrive in dry, sunny, rocky ground, which is why gardeners often call the same plants rockrose even though they are unrelated to true roses. Several kinds of cistus produce sticky, aromatic leaves, and one species yields the resin ladanum, once gathered for perfume and incense. The papery flowers of a cistus typically last only a single day before dropping their petals, though the shrub keeps producing fresh blooms through the summer. Mediterranean gardens and dry, drought-tolerant borders often rely on cistus for colour in poor, stony soil where many other shrubs would struggle.
How CISTUS is used
Mainly a gardening and botanical term, used for this group of Mediterranean shrubs rather than in everyday conversation.
- The dry hillside was covered with flowering cistus.
- She planted a row of cistus along the sunny gravel path.
- Bees crowded around the open blooms of the cistus.
- Ladanum resin is harvested from certain kinds of cistus.
- The garden guide recommended cistus for hot, rocky borders.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CISTUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CISTUS
1 longer words begin with CISTUS.
Shorter words from the letters in CISTUS
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Common questions about CISTUS
- Is CISTUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CISTUS, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CISTUS worth?
- CISTUS is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CISTUS mean?
- Any of a group of small evergreen shrubs from southern Europe and North Africa, grown for their large white, pink or red flowers and often called rockrose.
- What letters can be added to CISTUS?
- No single letter can be added to CISTUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CISTUS:
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