148 words come out when you unscramble CIVILISER, starting with CIVILISER itself: 14 in Scrabble, 17 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, CIVILISE leads with 13 points. The 9 letters split into 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from CIVILISER by length: 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 8, 3 with 7, 18 with 6, 45 with 5, 48 with 4, 24 with 3 and 7 with 2.
Of the 45 5-letter words you get when you unscramble CIVILISER, 4 score 10 points, the group's best. CIVIL, LIVES and LIVER are the ones most people know.
CIVE and VICE are the top 4-letter words from CIVILISER, 9 points each. LIVE, RISE and EVIL will look familiar.
Keep every letter of CIVILISER but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with CI · ending in ER · all 9-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with CIVILISE (13 points).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble UK accepts CIVILISER, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIVILISER itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 148) | 114 | 148 | 106 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
34 of the 148 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CIVILISER, CIVILS, CIVES, CIVE, RIVELS, VISIER, VISILE, ILICES, RIVEL, SLIVE, VISIE, VLIES and 22 more. 8 of the 148 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: VIRILISE, CEILIS, LEVIS, VLEIS, CEILI, LEVS, VLEI and SEV.
These 2 words take every letter of CIVILISER plus a single extra one.