Hidden inside capillarity sit capillarity and piratically, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 281 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
capillarity and piratically tie for the highest Scrabble score from capillarity at 18 points. The top 10 of 281 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in capillarity: one comes from rearranging its letters, and capillarity itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are capillarity and piratically, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling capillarity turns up 7 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are capillary, capitally, paralytic, and pyritical, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in capillarity. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apically, atypical, calyptra, and rapacity, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in capillarity produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capital and typical. For points, the strongest plays are cryptal, playact, pricily, pyritic, and typical — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling capillarity turns up 31 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are atypic and piracy, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in capillarity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altar, apart, lyric, party, rally, trail, and trial. For points, the strongest plays are crypt, pricy, pyric, and typic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in capillarity produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with call, cart, city, clap, clay, clip, and crap. For points, the strongest plays are pacy and pyic — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling capillarity turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, all, art, cap, car, and cat. For points, the strongest plays are cay, cry, icy, pay, ply, pry, pya, yap, and yip — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in capillarity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, ay, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
capillarity 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 3-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 capillarity. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
capillarity is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing capillarity unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are capillarity and piratically, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from capillarity 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 capillarity produce 281 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 7 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.