CYCLOPEAN is a valid Scrabble word — 18 points
Yes. CYCLOPEAN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 22 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CYCLOPEAN?
| 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 CYCLOPEAN is to know. It scores 18 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CYCLOPEAN
No single letter turns CYCLOPEAN into another word.
How CYCLOPEAN scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in CYCLOPEAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CYCLOPEAN has to be built on the board across turns.
What does CYCLOPEAN mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Of or like the Cyclops; huge and massive, especially of ancient walls built with giant irregular stones.
Archaeologists call walls cyclopean when they are made of boulders so big that legend credited giants with moving them. Writers also use the word for anything vast and rough. Cyclopean stonework survives at Mycenae.
How CYCLOPEAN is used
Used for gigantic stonework and, in literary style, for anything enormous.
- The fortress had cyclopean walls of unmortared stone.
- They stood before a cyclopean gate at the ruined city.
- He described a cyclopean task that would take years.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CYCLOPEAN and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CYCLOPEAN
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Common questions about CYCLOPEAN
- Is CYCLOPEAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CYCLOPEAN, where it scores 22 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CYCLOPEAN worth?
- CYCLOPEAN is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CYCLOPEAN mean?
- Of or like the Cyclops; huge and massive, especially of ancient walls built with giant irregular stones.
- What letters can be added to CYCLOPEAN?
- No single letter can be added to CYCLOPEAN to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of CYCLOPEAN:
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