capital: meaning and words from its letters
7 letters · 11 letter points · starts with C · ends with L
Meaning of capital
noun
- uncountable
Money and wealth: the means to acquire or produce goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
Example: He does not have enough capital to start a business.
- uncountable
Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as tools and bulldozers (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
Example: He pointed out that it takes both labour and capital to produce goods.
- uncountable
The capitalist class; investors considered collectively with respect to their societal (economic, political, cultural, etc.) influence.
Example: The markets crashing symbolized capital’s discontent with the tax reforms passed.
- countable
A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
Example: Washington D.C. is the capital of the United States of America.
Listed forms: capitals, capitall.
Source: Wiktionary — capital.
adj
- not-comparable
Of prime importance.
- not-comparable
Chief (in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation).
Example: London and Paris are capital cities.
- not-comparable
Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.
Example: capital punishment; capital murder
- not-comparable
Uppercase.
Example: One begins a sentence with a capital letter.
Listed forms: capitall.
Source: Wiktionary — capital.
intj
- dated, slang
used as an expression of approval, satisfaction, or delight.
Example: That's an amazing idea! Capital!
Listed forms: capitall.
Source: Wiktionary — capital.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
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adjective
uppercase
noun
assets available for use in the production of further assets
- working capital
noun
one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
noun
the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is capital in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of capital
C(3) + A(1) + P(3) + I(1) + T(1) + A(1) + L(1) = 11 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of capital
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
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Shorter words from capital
55 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in capital. Showing up to 24, longest first.