CRYPTO is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. CRYPTO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CRYPTO?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CRYPTO is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CRYPTO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CRYPTO scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CRYPTO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 517,384.
What stands out about CRYPTO
- CRYPTO gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CRYPTO mean in Scrabble?
noun
A person who secretly supports or belongs to a group, party or belief without admitting it.
The word comes from the Greek for hidden, and it is the root of many longer terms such as cryptic and crypt. As a noun, a crypto is a hidden follower, for example a secret sympathiser of a political movement. It is also found as a prefix in forms like crypto-fascist, though today the word is far more often met as a short form of cryptocurrency.
How CRYPTO is used
Rather uncommon in this sense; in modern speech it usually refers to digital currency.
- The newspaper accused the minister of being a crypto in the pay of a foreign power.
- In the old histories, every secret sympathiser was called a crypto.
- He denied he was a crypto, though he attended every meeting.
- The party feared that a crypto had joined the committee.
- Historians still argue whether the poet was a crypto of the old faith.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CRYPTO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CRYPTO
Showing 24 of 72 words that begin with CRYPTO.
Shorter words from the letters in CRYPTO
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Common questions about CRYPTO
- Is CRYPTO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CRYPTO, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CRYPTO worth?
- CRYPTO is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CRYPTO mean?
- A person who secretly supports or belongs to a group, party or belief without admitting it.
- What letters can be added to CRYPTO?
- CRYPTO takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CRYPTO:
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