Hidden inside calories sit calories and carioles, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 365 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
calories and carioles tie for the highest Scrabble score from calories at 10 points. The top 10 of 365 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in calories: one comes from rearranging its letters, and calories itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are calories and carioles, 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 calories produces 19 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 calorie, cariole, celosia, claries, claroes, coalers, coalier, coilers, eclairs, escolar, loricae, loricas, oracies, oracles, recoals, recoils, scalier, scoriae, and solacer, 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 calories turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clears, closer, sailor, serial, and social. For points, the strongest plays are caries, carles, caroli, carols, ceorls, cerias, claros, clears, closer, coaler, coarse, coiler, colies, corals, cosier, cresol, eclair, ericas, lacers, lacier, locies, lorica, ocreas, oracle, recoal, recoil, relics, rosace, scaler, sclera, scoria, slicer, social, and solace — 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 94 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, cares, clear, close, colas, cores, and cries. For points, the strongest plays are acres, acros, alecs, areic, calos, cares, carle, carls, carol, carse, ceils, ceorl, ceria, ceros, cires, claro, clear, close, coals, coils, coirs, colas, coles, coral, cores, coria, corse, cosie, crias, cries, erica, escar, ileac, lacer, laces, laics, locie, locis, ocrea, oleic, orcas, oscar, races, relic, rices, saice, salic, scale, scare, score, serac, slice, and socle — 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 calories produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, also, liar, lice, lies, lose, and oils. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acre, acro, alec, arco, arcs, asci, lace, lacs, laic, lice, loca, loci, locs, ocas, orca, orcs, race, recs, rice, rocs, scar, sice, soca, calo, cals, care, carl, cars, case, ceil, cels, cero, ciao, cire, coal, coil, coir, cola, cole, cols, core, cors, cria, cris, ecos, and ices — 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 calories turns up 64 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, cis, col, cor, cos, eco, ice, lac, loc, oca, orc, rec, roc, sac, sec, sic, and soc — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, is, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, ar, as, el, er, es, is, la, li, lo, oe, oi, or, os, re, si, and so — 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 calories and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
calories 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.
calories is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing calories unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are calories and carioles, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from calories 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 calories produce 365 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 94 five-letter words, 121 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.