CYTOGENY is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. CYTOGENY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CYTOGENY?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CYTOGENY is to know. It scores 17 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CYTOGENY
No single letter turns CYTOGENY into another word.
How CYTOGENY scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in CYTOGENY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| y | 2 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CYTOGENY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does CYTOGENY mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The origin, formation and development of cells.
Biologists use it for the story of how a cell comes into being and takes on its form. Cytogeny is a specialised word, rarely met outside textbooks, and it is sometimes confused with cytogenetics, which deals with chromosomes.
How CYTOGENY is used
Specialist biology term, mostly in older or formal scientific writing.
- The lecture on cytogeny covered the first stages of plant tissue.
- Early studies of cytogeny relied on simple microscopes.
- Her notes on cytogeny filled half the notebook.
- The journal published a paper on the cytogeny of blood cells.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CYTOGENY and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CYTOGENY
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Common questions about CYTOGENY
- Is CYTOGENY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CYTOGENY, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CYTOGENY worth?
- CYTOGENY is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CYTOGENY mean?
- The origin, formation and development of cells.
- What letters can be added to CYTOGENY?
- No single letter can be added to CYTOGENY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of CYTOGENY:
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