CYTOTOXIC is a valid Scrabble word — 23 points
Yes. CYTOTOXIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 23 points in Scrabble and 24 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CYTOTOXIC?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CYTOTOXIC is to know. It scores 23 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CYTOTOXIC
No single letter turns CYTOTOXIC into another word.
How CYTOTOXIC scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in CYTOTOXIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CYTOTOXIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about CYTOTOXIC
- CYTOTOXIC 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 CYTOTOXIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medicaltechnical
Poisonous to living cells, able to damage or kill them.
Cytotoxic drugs are given in chemotherapy, because they attack fast-dividing cancer cells, but they harm healthy cells too and cause side effects such as hair loss. Certain immune cells are likewise described as cytotoxic when they destroy infected cells.
How CYTOTOXIC is used
Common in medicine, pharmacology and immunology.
- The nurse wore gloves to handle the cytotoxic drug.
- A cytotoxic chemical killed the cells in the dish.
- Cytotoxic treatments are carefully controlled doses.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CYTOTOXIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CYTOTOXIC
2 longer words begin with CYTOTOXIC.
Shorter words from the letters in CYTOTOXIC
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Common questions about CYTOTOXIC
- Is CYTOTOXIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CYTOTOXIC, where it scores 24 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CYTOTOXIC worth?
- CYTOTOXIC is worth 23 points in Scrabble and 24 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CYTOTOXIC mean?
- Poisonous to living cells, able to damage or kill them.
- What letters can be added to CYTOTOXIC?
- No single letter can be added to CYTOTOXIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of CYTOTOXIC:
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