CYESIS is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. CYESIS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CYESIS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CYESIS is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CYESIS
No single letter turns CYESIS into another word.
How CYESIS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CYESIS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 459,897.
What does CYESIS mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
The medical term for pregnancy, the condition of carrying a developing child.
Cyesis comes from the Greek word for conception and belongs to the vocabulary of doctors rather than ordinary speakers. It appears in compounds such as pseudocyesis, which names a false pregnancy. Outside medicine the word is a rarity, and it is mostly met in textbooks and word lists.
How CYESIS is used
Medical and rare; the everyday word is pregnancy.
- The textbook defines cyesis as the state of being pregnant.
- A doctor wrote cyesis in the margin of the old record.
- The word cyesis is the root of pseudocyesis, or false pregnancy.
- Few patients would recognise the term cyesis on a chart.
- The lecturer explained that cyesis simply means pregnancy in Greek-derived form.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CYESIS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CYESIS
Common questions about CYESIS
- Is CYESIS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CYESIS, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CYESIS worth?
- CYESIS is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CYESIS mean?
- The medical term for pregnancy, the condition of carrying a developing child.
- What letters can be added to CYESIS?
- No single letter can be added to CYESIS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CYESIS:
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