Hidden inside caterers sit caterers, recrates, retraces and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 234 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
caterers, recrates, retraces and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from caterers at 10 points. The top 10 of 234 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in caterers: three come from rearranging its letters, and caterers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caterers. For points, the strongest plays are caterers, recrates, retraces, and terraces — 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 caterers produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with careers, caterer, and creates. For points, the strongest plays are careers, carters, caterer, cerates, craters, creaser, creates, ecartes, recrate, retrace, terrace, and tracers — 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 caterers turns up 44 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, career, caters, create, easter, rarest, and reacts. For points, the strongest plays are career, carers, carets, carter, cartes, caster, caters, cerate, certes, crater, crates, crease, create, ecarte, erects, racers, reacts, recast, resect, scarer, secret, terces, tracer, and traces — 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 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in caterers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, carts, cater, cease, erase, races, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are acres, carer, cares, caret, carrs, carse, carte, carts, caste, cater, cates, cease, ceres, certs, cesta, cetes, crate, crest, erect, escar, racer, races, react, recta, scare, scart, scree, serac, taces, terce, and trace — 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 caterers produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arts, care, cars, cart, case, and cast. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acre, acts, arcs, care, carr, cars, cart, case, cast, cate, cats, cees, cere, cert, cete, race, recs, scar, scat, sect, tace, and tecs — 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 caterers turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are, art, ate, car, cat, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, car, cat, cee, rec, sac, sec, and tec — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in caterers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, at, er, es, et, re, ta, and te — 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 caterers 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.
caterers 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 caterers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
caterers is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing caterers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are caterers, recrates, retraces, and terraces, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from caterers 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 caterers produce 234 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 44 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.