CRITICAL

What CRITICAL Means

1. adjective: marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws“a critical attitude”
2. adjective: at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction“a critical temperature of water is 100 degrees C, its boiling point at standard atmospheric pressure”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CRITICAL is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 R1 I1 T1 I1 C3 A1 L1.

Words Made From The Letters In CRITICAL

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.

6 letter words (9)

5 letter words (18)

4 letter words (26)

3 letter words (23)

2 letter words (9)

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