CLEIDOIC is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. CLEIDOIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CLEIDOIC?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CLEIDOIC is to know. It scores 13 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CLEIDOIC
No single letter turns CLEIDOIC into another word.
How CLEIDOIC scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in CLEIDOIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CLEIDOIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about CLEIDOIC
- CLEIDOIC begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CLEIDOIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technicalzoology
Describing an egg that is closed off from its surroundings by a shell or membrane, so that it develops without exchanging water or waste with the outside.
Biologists use cleidoic when discussing how birds, reptiles and insects were freed from laying eggs in water. A cleidoic design keeps the embryo supplied with its own store of nourishment and moisture.
How CLEIDOIC is used
Almost always found in zoology and embryology texts, usually before the noun "egg".
- A hen lays a cleidoic egg that carries its own food supply.
- The cleidoic habit let animals breed far from open water.
- Textbooks describe the cleidoic shell as a sealed life-support pod.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CLEIDOIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CLEIDOIC
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Common questions about CLEIDOIC
- Is CLEIDOIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CLEIDOIC, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CLEIDOIC worth?
- CLEIDOIC is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CLEIDOIC mean?
- Describing an egg that is closed off from its surroundings by a shell or membrane, so that it develops without exchanging water or waste with the outside.
- What letters can be added to CLEIDOIC?
- No single letter can be added to CLEIDOIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of CLEIDOIC:
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