CYTOPHILIC is a valid Scrabble word — 22 points
Yes. CYTOPHILIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 22 points in Scrabble and 24 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CYTOPHILIC?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CYTOPHILIC is to know. It scores 22 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CYTOPHILIC
No single letter turns CYTOPHILIC into another word.
How CYTOPHILIC scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in CYTOPHILIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CYTOPHILIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about CYTOPHILIC
- CYTOPHILIC begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CYTOPHILIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Having a natural attraction or affinity for cells, as certain antibodies do.
Immunologists call an antibody cytophilic when it attaches to the surface of cells instead of floating free in the blood. A cytophilic antibody can therefore prepare a cell to react to a later encounter with an antigen.
How CYTOPHILIC is used
Cytophilic is a specialist immunology word and most often describes antibodies.
- The cytophilic antibody bound firmly to the surface of the white blood cells.
- Researchers studied a cytophilic protein in the blood serum.
- A cytophilic reaction was observed in the test tube.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CYTOPHILIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CYTOPHILIC
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Common questions about CYTOPHILIC
- Is CYTOPHILIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CYTOPHILIC, where it scores 24 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CYTOPHILIC worth?
- CYTOPHILIC is worth 22 points in Scrabble and 24 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CYTOPHILIC mean?
- Having a natural attraction or affinity for cells, as certain antibodies do.
- What letters can be added to CYTOPHILIC?
- No single letter can be added to CYTOPHILIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of CYTOPHILIC:
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