ISOCYCLIC is a valid Scrabble word — 18 points
Yes. ISOCYCLIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 21 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ISOCYCLIC?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ISOCYCLIC is to know. It scores 18 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ISOCYCLIC
No single letter turns ISOCYCLIC into another word.
How ISOCYCLIC scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in ISOCYCLIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| i | 2 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| c | 3 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
The Scrabble bag does not hold enough of these letters. ISOCYCLIC needs 1 blank tile.
What does ISOCYCLIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
chemistrytechnical
Describing a molecule whose closed ring is built entirely from atoms of a single element, usually carbon.
Chemists reach for this term when they want to separate pure-carbon rings from rings that hide an oxygen or nitrogen atom. Benzene is the textbook case, which is why isocyclic compounds come up early in organic chemistry courses.
How ISOCYCLIC is used
Used in chemistry texts to classify ring compounds by the kind of atoms in the ring.
- Benzene is an isocyclic compound because every atom in its ring is carbon.
- The textbook contrasts an isocyclic ring with a heterocyclic one.
- She drew an isocyclic structure on the board and counted the ring members.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ISOCYCLIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ISOCYCLIC
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Common questions about ISOCYCLIC
- Is ISOCYCLIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ISOCYCLIC, where it scores 21 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ISOCYCLIC worth?
- ISOCYCLIC is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 21 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ISOCYCLIC mean?
- Describing a molecule whose closed ring is built entirely from atoms of a single element, usually carbon.
- What letters can be added to ISOCYCLIC?
- No single letter can be added to ISOCYCLIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of ISOCYCLIC:
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