CRYOPHILIC is a valid Scrabble word — 22 points
Yes. CRYOPHILIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 22 points in Scrabble and 24 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CRYOPHILIC?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CRYOPHILIC is to know. It scores 22 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CRYOPHILIC
No single letter turns CRYOPHILIC into another word.
How CRYOPHILIC scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in CRYOPHILIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CRYOPHILIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about CRYOPHILIC
- CRYOPHILIC 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 CRYOPHILIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Thriving at low temperatures, said of certain organisms such as some bacteria.
A cryophilic organism grows best in cold surroundings like polar ice, glaciers and deep-sea sediment. The word is close in meaning to psychrophilic, though cryophilic stresses the love of extreme cold.
How CRYOPHILIC is used
Cryophilic is found in microbiology and ecology papers and usually describes bacteria, algae or fungi.
- The cryophilic bacteria were collected from a glacier.
- A cryophilic species can keep growing near freezing point.
- Scientists cultured a cryophilic microbe from Antarctic ice.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CRYOPHILIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CRYOPHILIC
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Common questions about CRYOPHILIC
- Is CRYOPHILIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CRYOPHILIC, where it scores 24 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CRYOPHILIC worth?
- CRYOPHILIC is worth 22 points in Scrabble and 24 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CRYOPHILIC mean?
- Thriving at low temperatures, said of certain organisms such as some bacteria.
- What letters can be added to CRYOPHILIC?
- No single letter can be added to CRYOPHILIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of CRYOPHILIC:
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