Hidden inside acatae is one standout: aceta, a five-letter play worth 7 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 19 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble AATACE, ATACEA or AAACTE and you get the same 6 letters as ACATAE: so the words from ACATAE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
aceta is the highest-scoring word from acatae, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 19 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling acatae produces exactly one five-letter word: aceta. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in acatae produces 3 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are acta, cate, and tace, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is aceta, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from acatae earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in acatae produce 19 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 3 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.