CYANIC is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. CYANIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CYANIC?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CYANIC is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CYANIC
No single letter turns CYANIC into another word.
How CYANIC scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CYANIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,226 thousand.
What stands out about CYANIC
- CYANIC 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 CYANIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Of or relating to the blue color cyan, or to the compound cyanogen.
Cyanic comes from the Greek word for dark blue. In older botany it described blue flowers, and in chemistry cyanic acid is the name of a compound that contains carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen. Context tells you which sense is meant: a cyanic petal is simply blue, while cyanic acid is a laboratory substance.
How CYANIC is used
Scientific word; used in chemistry and in older botanical writing.
- The chemist labelled the flask as cyanic acid.
- Her old textbook described the flower as a cyanic blue.
- A cyanic tint spread over the glass when the solution cooled.
- The paper discusses the cyanic compounds found in the dye.
- Botanists once sorted petals into cyanic and xanthic groups.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CYANIC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CYANIC
Common questions about CYANIC
- Is CYANIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CYANIC, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CYANIC worth?
- CYANIC is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CYANIC mean?
- Of or relating to the blue color cyan, or to the compound cyanogen.
- What letters can be added to CYANIC?
- No single letter can be added to CYANIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CYANIC:
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