What CLITICS Means
CLITICS is a form of CLITIC, which means:
- noun: a word that is treated in pronunciation as forming a part of a neighboring word and that is often unaccented or contracted.“Most languages can adopt theme-rheme structure idiosyncratically, as for English, we often use as for theme constructions, but topic-prominent languages use systematic changes in syntax or even dedicated morpological elements such as the Japanese clitic particle ‘-wa’ to mark themes and to set them apart from rhemes.”
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
CLITICS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 L1 I1 T1 I1 C3 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In CLITICS
29 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 (2)
5 letter words (2)
4 letter words (9)
3 letter words (10)
2 letter words (6)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.