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CYPHERS

7 letters, 17 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What CYPHERS Means

CYPHERS is a form of CYPHER, which means:

  1. noun: a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
  2. noun: a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential“it looked like nothing I had ever seen before”
  3. verb: convert ordinary language into code“We should encode the message for security reasons”
  4. verb: make a mathematical calculation or computation

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CYPHERS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 Y4 P3 H4 E1 R1 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 67 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of CYPHERS (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In CYPHERS

98 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

6 letter words (7)

5 letter words (13)

4 letter words (34)

3 letter words (35)

2 letter words (9)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.