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Is cycle a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word cycle is a Scrabble US word. The word cycle is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is cycle a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word cycle is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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5-letter words (2 found)

CYCLE,LECCY,

3-letter words (4 found)

CEL,CLY,LEY,LYE,

2-letter words (2 found)

EL,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 9 words from cycle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of cycle

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Definitions and meaning of cycle

cycle

Etymology

From Middle English cicle (“fixed length period of years”), from Late Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”), from Proto-Hellenic *kúklos, *kʷókʷlos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“circle, wheel”).

Doublet of wheel; see there for more.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈsaɪ.kəl/, [ˈsaɪ.kl̩]
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈsɑɪ.kəl/, [ˈsɑɪ.kl̩]
  • Rhymes: -aɪkəl
  • Hyphenation: cyc‧le

Noun

cycle (plural cycles)

  1. An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
  2. A complete rotation of anything.
  3. A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
  4. The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
  5. (music) In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class.
  6. A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy.
  7. A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
  8. A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
    Hyponyms: motorbike, motorcycle, unicycle, bicycle, tricycle, motortrike
  9. (baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
  10. (graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
  11. (topology, algebraic topology) A chain whose boundary is zero.
  12. An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
  13. An age; a long period of time.
  14. An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
  15. (botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire.
  16. (weaponry) A discharge of a taser.
  17. (aviation) One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.
  18. (sports) A scheduled period of time of weeks or months wherein a performance-enhancing substance or, by extension, supplement is applied, to be followed by another one where it is not or the dosage is lower.

Usage notes

  • (baseball sense): As in the example sentence, one is usually said to hit for the cycle. However, other uses also occur, such as hit a cycle and complete the cycle.

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Descendants

  • → Japanese: サイクル (saikuru)

Translations

Verb

cycle (third-person singular simple present cycles, present participle cycling, simple past and past participle cycled)

  1. To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
  2. To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
  3. (electronics) To turn power off and back on
    Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.
  4. (ice hockey) To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal
    They have their cycling game going tonight.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • recycle

Translations

Anagrams

  • leccy

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French, from Late Latin cyclus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sikl/

Noun

cycle m (plural cycles)

  1. cycle
    cycle de l’eau ― water cycle
    cycle du carbone ― carbon cycle
  2. (Switzerland) middle school, junior high school

Derived terms

  • bicyclette
  • cyclique
  • cyclisme
  • cycliste

See also

  • cercle

Further reading

  • “cycle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Noun

cycle

  1. vocative singular of cyclus

Source: wiktionary.org