What CIVILISES Means
CIVILISES is a form of CIVILISE, which means:
- verb: teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment“Cultivate your musical taste”
- verb: raise from a barbaric to a civilized state“The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
CIVILISES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 I1 V4 I1 L1 I1 S1 E1 S1.
Words Made From The Letters In CIVILISES
85 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
8 letter words (1)
7 letter words (2)
6 letter words (9)
5 letter words (24)
CEILICEILSCIELSCIVESCIVIECIVILCLIESEVILSISLESISSEIIVIESLEVISLIVESSEILSSICESSILESSLICESLIVEVEILSVICESVISESVISIEVLEISVLIES
4 letter words (27)
CEILCELSCESSCIELCIVEEVILICESISLELEISLESSLICELIESLIVESECSSEILSEISSELSSICESICSSIESSILEVEILVICEVIESVILEVISEVLEI
3 letter words (17)
2 letter words (5)
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