Hidden inside autoclave sit autoclave and vacuolate, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 177 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
autoclave and vacuolate tie for the highest Scrabble score from autoclave at 14 points. The top 10 of 177 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in autoclave: one comes from rearranging its letters, and autoclave itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are autoclave and vacuolate, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in autoclave produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are caveola, clavate, coaeval, octaval, and vacuole, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling autoclave turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actual and locate. For points, the strongest plays are alcove, avocet, caveat, coeval, octave, and vacate — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in autoclave. If a familiar word is all you need, start with vacua, value, and vault. For points, the strongest plays are calve, clave, clove, covet, vacua, and vocal — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in autoclave produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auto, cave, clue, coat, cola, cult, and cute. For points, the strongest plays are cava, cave, and cove — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling autoclave turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ate, cat, cue, cut, eat, and let. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in autoclave. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and to. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, al, at, el, et, la, lo, oe, ta, te, to, and ut — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in autoclave plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in autoclave and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
autoclave is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for autoclave. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
autoclave is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing autoclave unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are autoclave and vacuolate, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from autoclave 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 autoclave produce 177 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.