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Is epicycle a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word epicycle is a Scrabble US word. The word epicycle is worth 17 points in Scrabble:

E1P3I1C3Y4C3L1E1

Is epicycle a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word epicycle is a Scrabble UK word and has 17 points:

E1P3I1C3Y4C3L1E1

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Yes. The word epicycle is a Words With Friends word. The word epicycle is worth 20 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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8-letter words (1 found)

EPICYCLE,

6-letter words (2 found)

CICELY,CLYPEI,

5-letter words (9 found)

CLEEP,CLEPE,CLIPE,CLYPE,CYCLE,LECCY,LYCEE,PICCY,PIECE,

4-letter words (19 found)

CEIL,CEPE,CIEL,CLIP,ECCE,EELY,EPIC,LEEP,LICE,LIPE,PEEL,PELE,PICE,PILE,PILY,PLIE,PYIC,YELP,YIPE,

3-letter words (24 found)

CEE,CEL,CEP,CLY,EEL,EYE,ICE,ICY,LEE,LEI,LEP,LEY,LIE,LIP,LYE,PEC,PEE,PEL,PIC,PIE,PLY,PYE,YEP,YIP,

2-letter words (6 found)

EE,EL,LI,PE,PI,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 62 words from epicycle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of epicycle

epicycle

Etymology

From Latin epicyclus, from Ancient Greek ἐπίκυκλος (epíkuklos), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɛpɪˌsaɪkəl/

Noun

epicycle (plural epicycles)

  1. (astronomy) A small circle whose centre is on the circumference of a larger circle; in Ptolemaic astronomy it was seen as the basis of revolution of the "seven planets", given a fixed central Earth.
    • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.155:
      Is it not [Philosophie], that […] teacheth miserie, famine and sicknesse to laugh? Not by reason of some imaginarie Epicicles, but by naturall and palpable reasons.
  2. (geometry) Any circle whose circumference rolls around that of another circle, thus creating a hypocycloid or epicycloid.
  3. (organic chemistry) A ring of atoms joining parts of an already cyclic compound
  4. (figuratively) An ad hoc complication added to a model to make it fit the known data

Derived terms

  • epicyclic

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