CYCLE is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. CYCLE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CYCLE?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CYCLE is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CYCLE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CYCLE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CYCLE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 784,245.
What does CYCLE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A series of events or stages that repeat regularly in the same order.
A cycle is any process that returns to its starting point and begins again, from the water cycle that moves moisture between sea, sky and land to the cycle of seasons through a year. The word is also used for a single complete round of such a process, as in one cycle of a washing machine or one cycle of a disease. In everyday British speech cycle additionally serves as a short form of bicycle, and as a verb it means to ride one. Across its senses the common thread is a return to a starting condition after a defined sequence.
How CYCLE is used
Widely used in science and everyday speech for repeating processes, and informally in Britain to mean bicycle or to ride one.
- The water cycle moves moisture between the ocean, the air and the land.
- She rides her cycle to work every morning.
- The washing machine finished its cycle after forty minutes.
- Economists study the business cycle of booms and slumps.
- Each cycle of the moon takes about twenty-nine days.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CYCLE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CYCLE
The 5 tiles of CYCLE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CYCLE
12 longer words begin with CYCLE.
Words ending in CYCLE
23 words end in CYCLE. Useful as a back hook: play CYCLE onto a word already on the board.
Words with CYCLE inside
Showing 24 of 40 words that contain CYCLE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with CYCLE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CYCLE
Common questions about CYCLE
- Is CYCLE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CYCLE, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CYCLE worth?
- CYCLE is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CYCLE mean?
- A series of events or stages that repeat regularly in the same order.
- What letters can be added to CYCLE?
- CYCLE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CYCLE:
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