CITYWARD is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. CITYWARD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CITYWARD?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CITYWARD is to know. It scores 17 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CITYWARD
No single letter turns CITYWARD into another word.
How CITYWARD scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in CITYWARD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CITYWARD has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about CITYWARD
- All 8 letters of CITYWARD are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CITYWARD mean in Scrabble?
adverb
rare
In the direction of a city.
Built in the same way as homeward and seaward, this word suits travel writing and descriptions of movement. A road, a crowd or a river can all be said to run cityward when the writer wants a compact way of naming the heading.
How CITYWARD is used
Rare, literary adverb of direction, used for movement towards a city.
- At dawn the farmers drove their carts cityward with baskets of vegetables.
- The river bends and flows cityward after the second bridge.
- Crowds were already walking cityward when the bells began to ring.
- We turned the van cityward as the rain started.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CITYWARD and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CITYWARD
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Common questions about CITYWARD
- Is CITYWARD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CITYWARD, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CITYWARD worth?
- CITYWARD is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CITYWARD mean?
- In the direction of a city.
- What letters can be added to CITYWARD?
- No single letter can be added to CITYWARD to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of CITYWARD:
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