What does CAPITAL mean?

Pronunciation
/ˈkæpətəl/
Letters
7
Scrabble score
11
Words With Friends score
14
How common
Very common

Meaning

noun

  1. assets available for use in the production of further assets
  2. wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
  3. a seat of government
  4. one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis“printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters”
  5. a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product“the crime capital of Italy”
  6. the upper part of a column that supports the entablature

adjective

  1. first-rate“a capital fellow”
  2. of primary importance“our capital concern was to avoid defeat”

Definitions from Princeton WordNet 3.0.

Other forms

capitals12

Anagrams of CAPITAL

No other word in the ENABLE list uses exactly these letters.

Words inside CAPITAL

63 shorter words can be made from these letters. Here are the most useful.

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Questions

Is CAPITAL a valid word in word games?

CAPITAL is in the ENABLE word list, which many word games use, so it is very likely to be accepted. Check your game's own dictionary if a play is challenged.

How many points is CAPITAL worth?

CAPITAL is worth 11 points with Scrabble letter values and 14 with Words With Friends values, before any bonus squares.

What words can you make from CAPITAL?

63 other words, including IT, AT, ACT and AL.