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Is CAPITALS a valid Scrabble word?

Yes, CAPITALS is a valid word in US Scrabble and UK Scrabble, worth 12 points.

Base score before bonus squares; blank tiles score zero.

What does CAPITALS mean?

Capitals is a form of CAPITAL.

  1. noun

    assets available for use in the production of further assets

  2. noun

    wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value

  3. noun

    a seat of government

  4. noun

    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”

Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University.

Points

12

Scrabble

15

Words With Friends

8

Letters

C (3) + A (1) + P (3) + I (1) + T (1) + A (1) + L (1) + S (1) = 12 points in Scrabble.

Dictionary status

  • Scrabble (US & Canada)Valid
  • Scrabble (UK & worldwide)Valid
  • Words With FriendsListed

Scrabble lists: NWL2023 (US & Canada) and CSW24 (UK & worldwide). WWF uses our ENABLE reference plus verified additions. “Listed” and “Not listed” describe that reference; check acceptance in the game. Sources reviewed 2026-10-03.

Hooks for CAPITALS

CAPITALS has no one-letter front or back hooks in US Scrabble. Adding a single letter to either end does not make another word in that list.

Front hooks0

None — nothing can be added to the front.

Back hooks0

None — nothing can be added to the end.

Anagrams of CAPITALS

Words that use exactly the same letters.

Words you can make from CAPITALS

The 60 highest-scoring words using these letters.

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