Hidden inside cafes sit cafes and faces, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cafes and faces tie for the highest Scrabble score from cafes at 10 points. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in cafes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cafes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: cafes and faces, worth 10 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cafes produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cafe, case, face, and safe. For points, the strongest plays are cafe, cafs, and face — 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 cafes turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sea. For points, the strongest play is caf — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cafes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in cafes and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
cafes 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for cafes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
cafes is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cafes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cafes and faces, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cafes 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 cafes produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.