Unscramble CYCLICISM and you have 31 words, CYCLICISM itself among them: it scores 20 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is CYCLIC, 15 points. 9 letters: 2 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from CYCLICISM by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 6, 3 with 5, 8 with 4, 13 with 3 and 5 with 2. None has 8 or 7 letters.
CYCLIC is the only one of the 6-letter words in CYCLICISM; it scores 15 points.
Keep every letter of CYCLICISM but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with CY · ending in SM · all 9-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; CYCLIC (15 points) takes the top spot.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
CYCLICISM is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CYCLICISM itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 31) | 25 | 31 | 21 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
6 of the 31 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CYCLICISM, LYMS, SCLIM, CLY, LYM and SIMI. 4 of the 31 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: MYCS, MYC, MICS and MIC.
With one more tile, the letters of CYCLICISM spell the words below.