CIVIL unscrambled

C3I1V4I1L1

These 5 tiles spell 2 words, the longest running 5 letters, including 1 anagram that uses every letter.

Full anagrams of CIVIL

One word uses every one of your 5 tiles — the complete rearrangement most puzzles are asking for.

Longest first, alphabetical within each length. The small number is the word's tile score. Tap any word to unscramble it in turn.

Add a single blank and the same rack reaches 106 more words, up to 6 letters. Here are the longest of them.

2 vowels and 3 consonants — a balanced rack, which is where the longest words usually come from.

Face value of the full rack: 10 points.

The C: Needs a partner. C rarely stands alone in short words; pair it with an H or a vowel and it opens up quickly.
The V: The awkward one — there is no valid two-letter word containing V, so it always needs at least two other tiles.

Drop a tile and solve the rest. Each link runs the same search on the remaining letters.