CITO is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. CITO 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 6 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept CITO?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CITO is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CITO
No single letter turns CITO into another word.
How CITO scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in CITO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,538.
What stands out about CITO
- The same 4 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CITO mean in Scrabble?
adverb
medicalrare
Quickly or urgently, a Latin word once used as an instruction on medical prescriptions.
Cito is a Latin adverb meaning quickly, and doctors traditionally wrote it on prescriptions to tell a pharmacist to prepare the medicine without delay, much as statim was used for immediately. Outside this narrow medical and Latin-influenced use, the word rarely appears in ordinary English text.
How CITO is used
A rare Latin loanword, met mainly in older medical prescriptions and in Latin quotations rather than everyday English.
- The old prescription was marked cito to show it needed urgent preparation.
- The pharmacist recognised cito as the Latin instruction meaning quickly.
- A note beside the dose read cito, underlining how soon it was needed.
- Doctors once used cito on prescriptions the way stat is used today.
- The Latin phrase included cito to stress that no delay was acceptable.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CITO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CITO
The 4 tiles of CITO in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with CITO
4 longer words begin with CITO.
Words ending in CITO
1 words end in CITO. Useful as a back hook: play CITO onto a word already on the board.
Words with CITO inside
Showing 24 of 37 words that contain CITO somewhere in the middle. Words that start with CITO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CITO
Common questions about CITO
- Is CITO valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and CITO is not in it.
- How many points is CITO worth?
- CITO is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CITO mean?
- Quickly or urgently, a Latin word once used as an instruction on medical prescriptions.
- What letters can be added to CITO?
- No single letter can be added to CITO to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of CITO:
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