cycle: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 12 letter points · starts with C · ends with E
Meaning of cycle
noun
An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
Example: the cycle of the seasons, or of the year
A complete rotation of anything.
A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
Example: electoral cycle menstrual cycle news cycle
The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
Listed forms: cycles.
Source: Wiktionary — cycle.
verb
To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
To turn power off and back on
Example: Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.
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
Example: They have their cycling game going tonight.
Listed forms: cycles, cycling, cycled.
Source: Wiktionary — cycle.
noun
A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
- specifically, usually
A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels. A bicycle.
Listed forms: cycles.
Source: Wiktionary — cycle.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for cycle.
noun
an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
noun
the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz)
- hertz
- Hz
- cycle per second
- cycles/second
- cps
noun
a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon
noun
a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is cycle in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of cycle
C(3) + Y(4) + C(3) + L(1) + E(1) = 12 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of cycle
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from cycle
6 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in cycle. Showing up to 24, longest first.