53 words come out when you unscramble CRITICIZE, starting with CRITICIZE itself: 22 in Scrabble, 24 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 13: 4 of them, RITZ, ZITI and TREZ included. The 9 letters split into 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
C34R1I1T1I1C34I1Z10E1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from CRITICIZE by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 7, 4 with 6, 8 with 5, 18 with 4, 14 with 3 and 7 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Combined: NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words 2024, WOW24 and Words With Friends together. Rude words are left out.
ICTERIC is the only one of the 7-letter words in CRITICIZE; it scores 11 points.
Keep every letter of CRITICIZE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with CR · ending in ZE · all 9-letter words
The meaning of CRITICIZE, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept CRITICIZE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRITICIZE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 53) | 42 | 52 | 35 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: TREZ, ZITE, RIZ, ZE, ERIC, ICER, TICE, CIT, TRIE and RIT, 10 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: REZ, TIZ, RECIT, CERT, CRIT, TEC and TE, 7 in all. Not in Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.
These 3 words take every letter of CRITICIZE plus a single extra one.