CYANID is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. CYANID is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CYANID?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CYANID is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CYANID
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CYANID scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CYANID, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 153,299.
What does CYANID mean in Scrabble?
noun
chemistry
An older spelling of cyanide, a compound containing the cyanogen group, many of which are poisonous.
Cyanid appears in older chemistry texts and in the lists of some word games, where it stands in for the standard spelling cyanide. Chemists once dropped the final letter of many names of compounds, and the spelling lingered in some writing. The compound is used to extract gold from ore and in electroplating, and the same word can serve as a verb for that treatment.
How CYANID is used
Dated variant; modern writing almost always uses cyanide.
- The old manual described how to make cyanid from the ore.
- A compound of cyanid and potassium was kept locked away.
- The label on the jar read cyanid in faded ink.
- He copied the word cyanid from a nineteenth-century textbook.
- The miners used cyanid to extract the gold.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CYANID and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CYANID
8 longer words begin with CYANID.
Shorter words from the letters in CYANID
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Common questions about CYANID
- Is CYANID valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CYANID, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CYANID worth?
- CYANID is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CYANID mean?
- An older spelling of cyanide, a compound containing the cyanogen group, many of which are poisonous.
- What letters can be added to CYANID?
- CYANID takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CYANID:
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