How many points in Scrabble is crucial worth? crucial how many points in Words With Friends? What does crucial mean? Get all these answers on this page.
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Is crucial a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word crucial is a Scrabble US word. The word crucial is worth 11 points in Scrabble:
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Is crucial a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word crucial is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:
C3R1U1C3I1A1L1
Is crucial a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word crucial is a Words With Friends word. The word crucial is worth 15 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
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You can make 47 words from crucial according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
1706, from French crucial, a medical term for ligaments of the knee (which cross each other), from Latin crux, crucis (“cross”) (English crux), from the Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, to bend”).
The meaning “decisive, critical” is extended from a logical term, Instantias Crucis, adopted by Francis Bacon in his influential Novum Organum (1620); the notion is of cross fingerboard signposts at forking roads, thus a requirement to choose.
crucial (comparative more crucial, superlative most crucial)
From a root of Latin crux (“cross”). The sense of "crucial" is a semantic loan from English crucial.
crucial (feminine cruciale, masculine plural cruciaux, feminine plural cruciales)
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crucial m or f (plural cruciais)
For quotations using this term, see Citations:crucial.
Borrowed from French crucial.
crucial m or n (feminine singular crucială, masculine plural cruciali, feminine and neuter plural cruciale)
Borrowed from English crucial.
crucial m or f (masculine and feminine plural cruciales)