152 words come out when you unscramble CIVILIZABLE, starting with CIVILIZABLE itself: 27 in Scrabble, 32 in Words With Friends. CIVILIZE is the best of the shorter words, at 22 points. It has 11 letters, 5 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from CIVILIZABLE by length: 1 with 11 letters, 1 with 8, 5 with 7, 15 with 6, 34 with 5, 50 with 4, 33 with 3 and 13 with 2. None has 10 or 9 letters.
CIVILIZE is the only one of the 8-letter words in CIVILIZABLE; it scores 22 points.
AVIZE scores highest among the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble CIVILIZABLE at 17 points, ahead of BAIZE and BEZIL on 16. CABLE, CIVIL and LABEL are the ones most people know.
Among the 4-letter words in CIVILIZABLE, BIZE leads with 15 points, then LAZE and ZEAL on 13. CALL, LIVE and CELL are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of CIVILIZABLE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 11-letter words: starting with CI · ending in LE · all 11-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by CIVILIZE (22 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts CIVILIZABLE, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIVILIZABLE itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 152) | 118 | 152 | 112 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 34 of them: CIVILIZABLE, AVIZE, BLAIZE, AIZLE, BEZ, CAZ, ZILLA, ZILA, ZEA, ZEL, CLAVIE, ICEBALL and 22 more. Words With Friends* skips 6 of them: ZA, CEILI, VLEI, BEAL, BAE and CAL.