CIT is valid in Collins, not in North America — 5 points
It depends on the list you play by. CIT 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 5 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept CIT?
| 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 | Not listed |
Word power: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CIT is to know. It scores 5 from 3 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CIT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CIT scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in CIT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,497.
What does CIT mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
A townsman, especially a city tradesman regarded as vulgar.
Cit is a seventeenth-century clipping of citizen and it was never neutral: writers used it for the merchant class of London as seen from a country estate, with the sneer built in. The insult died with the society that needed it, and the word now lives in old comedies and in word lists.
How CIT is used
Countable: a cit, the cits. Always of people, never of a place.
- The play opens with a cit counting his money badly.
- To the squire every visitor from London was a cit.
- Two cits and a lawyer made up the whole of the audience.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CIT and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CIT
The 3 tiles of CIT in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CIT
Showing 24 of 116 words that begin with CIT.
Words ending in CIT
23 words end in CIT. Useful as a back hook: play CIT onto a word already on the board.
Words with CIT inside
Showing 24 of 794 words that contain CIT somewhere in the middle. Words that start with CIT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CIT
Common questions about CIT
- Is CIT valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and CIT is not in it.
- How many points is CIT worth?
- CIT is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CIT mean?
- A townsman, especially a city tradesman regarded as vulgar.
- What letters can be added to CIT?
- CIT takes 4 hooks: 0 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of CIT:
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