Hidden inside calorie sit calorie, cariole, coalier and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 134 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
calorie, cariole, coalier and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from calorie at 9 points. The top 10 of 134 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in calorie: three come from rearranging its letters, and calorie itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are calorie, cariole, coalier, and loricae, 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 calorie turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are caroli, coaler, coiler, eclair, lacier, lorica, oracle, recoal, and recoil, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calorie. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clear. For points, the strongest plays are areic, carle, carol, ceorl, ceria, claro, clear, coral, coria, erica, ileac, lacer, locie, ocrea, oleic, and relic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in calorie produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cola, core, liar, lice, oral, and race. For points, the strongest plays are acre, acro, alec, arco, calo, care, carl, ceil, cero, ciao, cire, coal, coil, coir, cola, cole, core, cria, lace, laic, lice, loca, loci, orca, race, and rice — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling calorie turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, car, ear, era, ice, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are ace, arc, cal, car, cel, col, cor, eco, ice, lac, loc, oca, orc, rec, and roc — each worth 5 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 calorie. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, ar, el, er, la, li, lo, oe, oi, or, and re — each worth 2 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 calorie and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
calorie 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 2-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 calorie. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
calorie is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing calorie unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are calorie, cariole, coalier, and loricae, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from calorie 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 calorie produce 134 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.