CYCADEOID is a valid Scrabble word — 18 points
Yes. CYCADEOID is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CYCADEOID?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CYCADEOID is to know. It scores 18 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CYCADEOID
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cycadeoidsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CYCADEOID scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in CYCADEOID, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 2 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CYCADEOID has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about CYCADEOID
- CYCADEOID runs three vowels in a row, which almost no English word does.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CYCADEOID mean in Scrabble?
noun
botanytechnical
An extinct plant resembling a cycad, with a woody trunk and tough leaves, common in the age of dinosaurs.
A cycadeoid flourished in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and then died out. Unlike true cycads, its reproductive parts sat embedded in the trunk. Fossil trunks are found in many museums.
How CYCADEOID is used
Used in palaeobotany to name fossil plants of the Bennettitales group.
- The museum displayed a fossil cycadeoid trunk.
- A cycadeoid once grew where the desert now lies.
- Researchers described a new cycadeoid from the Cretaceous rocks.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CYCADEOID and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CYCADEOID
1 longer words begin with CYCADEOID.
Shorter words from the letters in CYCADEOID
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Common questions about CYCADEOID
- Is CYCADEOID valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CYCADEOID, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CYCADEOID worth?
- CYCADEOID is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CYCADEOID mean?
- An extinct plant resembling a cycad, with a woody trunk and tough leaves, common in the age of dinosaurs.
- What letters can be added to CYCADEOID?
- CYCADEOID takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of CYCADEOID:
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