Unscramble CIVILIZES and you have 75 words, CIVILIZES itself among them: it scores 23 in Scrabble and 26 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from CIVILIZES by length: 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 8, 7 with 6, 19 with 5, 23 with 4, 17 with 3 and 6 with 2. None has 7 letters.
SIZEL scores highest among the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble CIVILIZES at 14 points, ahead of CIVES and CIVIE on 10. CIVIL, LIVES and SLICE are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of CIVILIZES for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 9-letter words: starting with CI · ending in ES · all 9-letter words
CIVILIZES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept CIVILIZES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIVILIZES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 75) | 57 | 75 | 49 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: VIZIES, SIZEL, ZELS, ZEL, CIVILS, ZE, CIVES, CIVE, VISILE, ILICES, SLIVE, VISIE and 6 more, 18 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: SEZ, CEILIS, LEVIS, VLEIS, CEILI, LEVS, VLEI and SEV, 8 in all.
This word takes every letter of CIVILIZES plus a single extra one.