CITOLE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. CITOLE 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 CITOLE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CITOLE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CITOLE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
citolesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CITOLE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CITOLE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 28,744.
What does CITOLE mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicalmusic
A pear-shaped, plucked stringed instrument of the Middle Ages, an early ancestor of the modern cittern.
Musicians in medieval Europe played the citole by plucking its wire strings with a small pick called a plectrum, producing a bright sound suited to dance tunes and courtly songs. Carvings and manuscript illustrations from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries often show the citole with a solid, pear-shaped body carved from a single piece of wood, unlike the built-up body of a lute. By the fifteenth century the citole had largely given way to newer instruments such as the cittern, and today it survives mainly in early-music performance and museum collections. The same instrument is occasionally spelled citola in older or foreign-language sources, though citole is the more familiar English form.
How CITOLE is used
A specialised term from music history, used mainly by scholars and performers of medieval music.
- The museum displayed a carved medieval citole beside the harps.
- A minstrel plucked the citole to accompany the dancers.
- Illustrations in the old manuscript show a lady playing a citole.
- Early-music ensembles sometimes rebuild a citole from surviving carvings.
- The citole gradually fell out of fashion after the fourteenth century.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CITOLE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CITOLE
1 longer words begin with CITOLE.
Shorter words from the letters in CITOLE
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Common questions about CITOLE
- Is CITOLE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CITOLE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CITOLE worth?
- CITOLE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CITOLE mean?
- A pear-shaped, plucked stringed instrument of the Middle Ages, an early ancestor of the modern cittern.
- What letters can be added to CITOLE?
- CITOLE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CITOLE:
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