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CRITICAL

8 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

CRITICAL is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.

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Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

CRITIC 3 CRITICS 5 CRITICISM 11 CRITICIZE 11 CRITICALLY 11 CRITICISMS 11 CRITICIZED 11 CRITICIZER 11 CRITICIZES 11 CRITICALITY 11 CRITICIZERS 11 CRITICIZING 11 CRITICALNESS 11 CRITICALITIES 11 CRITICIZINGLY 11 CRITICALNESSES 11
adjective
  1. Inclined to find fault or criticize.
    • A good teacher is fair but critical.
  2. Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
    • This is a critical moment.
  3. Extremely important.
    • It's critical that you deliver this on time.
  4. Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
    • The movie was a critical success, but bombed at the box-office.
  5. Employing or related to textual criticism, particularly through a stemmatological comparison of all extant texts and reconstruction of the original.
  6. Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.
    • The patient's condition is critical.
  7. broadlyIn such a condition.
    • The patient is critical.
    • Two critical after fatal Wimbledon school crash
  8. Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
    • The political situation was so critical that the government declared the state of siege.
  9. Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
    • The reaction was about to become critical.
  10. Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.
  11. Needing great discrimination to be correctly classified; easily confused.
    • critical plants
noun
  1. A critical value, factor, etc.
  2. critical hit
  3. In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.