CYGNET is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. CYGNET 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 CYGNET?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CYGNET is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CYGNET
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cygnetsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CYGNET scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CYGNET, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 229,948.
What stands out about CYGNET
- CYGNET gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CYGNET mean in Scrabble?
noun
A young swan, the offspring of a swan before it reaches adult plumage.
A cygnet hatches from the egg covered in grey down and takes a couple of years to grow the pure white plumage of an adult mute swan. The word comes from Latin cygnus, a swan, with a small ending that gives it the sense of little. It is best known from the fairy tale of the ugly duckling, which in the end turns out to be a cygnet.
How CYGNET is used
Used for the young of the swan; the adult is a swan, the female a pen and the male a cob.
- A single cygnet followed its mother across the lake.
- The cygnet was still grey when the other birds were white.
- Four cygnets rode on the back of the pen.
- He watched a cygnet learn to swim for the first time.
- The ugly duckling in the story is really a cygnet.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CYGNET and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CYGNET
1 longer words begin with CYGNET.
Shorter words from the letters in CYGNET
Common questions about CYGNET
- Is CYGNET valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CYGNET, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CYGNET worth?
- CYGNET is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CYGNET mean?
- A young swan, the offspring of a swan before it reaches adult plumage.
- What letters can be added to CYGNET?
- CYGNET takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CYGNET:
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