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.
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 and 16 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling calories turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clears, closer and sailor. For points, 34 words tie at 8 points, including clears, closer and social.
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 and clear. For points, 53 words tie at 7 points, including cares, clear and close.
Rearranging the letters in calories produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, also and liar. For points, 47 words tie at 6 points, including lice, race and rice.
Unscrambling calories turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and car. For points, 21 words tie at 5 points, including car, ice and ace.
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, 19 words tie at 2 points, including as, is and or.
13 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in calories plus one additional letter.
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.