Unscramble cives

Unscramble CIVES and you have 19 words, CIVES itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. CIVES has 1 anagram here, VICES, scoring 10 like CIVES itself. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.

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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.

Possible Words From cives

By length, the words from CIVES split into 2 with 5 letters, 6 with 4, 8 with 3 and 3 with 2.

5 Letter Words You Can Make with cives

CIVES and 1 anagram, VICES, make up the 5-letter words made with CIVES letters; each scores 10 points.

4 Letter Words You Can Make with cives

CIVE and VICE are the top 4-letter words in CIVES, 9 points each. ICES and VISE will look familiar.

3 Letter Words You Can Make with cives

Among the 3-letter words you get when you unscramble CIVES, SEV, VIE and VIS tie for first at 6 points. ICE, SEC and SIC are everyday picks.

2 Letter Words You Can Make with cives

The 2-letter words from CIVES come to 3, each scoring 2 points. IS is the familiar one.

Change One Tile in CIVES

Keep every letter of CIVES but one, change that one, and you get:

More 5-letter words: starting with CI · ending in ES · all 5-letter words

Definitions for the Top CIVES Plays

Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with VICES (10 points).

Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends

VICES 10 · 12
to vise
VICE 9 · 11
to vise
VIES 7 · 8
to strive for superiority
VISE 7 · 8
to hold in a certain clamping device
ICES 6 · 7
to cover with frozen water
SEV 6 · 7
an Indian food of deep-fried strands of flour
SICE 6 · 7
a male servant in India
VIE 6 · 7
to strive for superiority

CIVES in Scrabble and Words With Friends: Can You Play It?

In Scrabble, yes: CIVES is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.

GameScrabble USScrabble UKWords With Friends*
CIVES itselfNoYesNo
Answers accepted (of 19)171916

* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.

Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CIVES and CIVE, 2 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: SEV.

One Extra Tile and CIVES Grows

With one more tile, the letters of CIVES spell the words below.

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