Hidden inside capitals sit aplastic and capitals, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 199 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aplastic and capitals tie for the highest Scrabble score from capitals at 12 points. The top 10 of 199 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in capitals: one comes from rearranging its letters, and capitals itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capitals. For points, the strongest plays are aplastic and capitals — 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 capitals produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capital and plastic. For points, the strongest plays are apicals, capital, plastic, and spacial — 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 capitals turns up 12 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apical, capias, capita, claspt, pascal, and plicas, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in capitals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with claps, clips, pacts, pasta, spilt, split, and tails. For points, the strongest plays are aspic, claps, clapt, clasp, clips, clipt, pacas, pacts, pical, picas, plica, scalp, and spica — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in capitals produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, caps, cast, cats, clap, clip, and laps. For points, the strongest plays are caps, clap, clip, paca, pacs, pact, pica, and pics — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling capitals turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, cap, cat, its, lap, lip, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are cap, pac, and pic — each worth 7 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 capitals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pi — each worth 4 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 capitals 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.
capitals 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 eleven senses for capitals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
capitals is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing capitals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aplastic and capitals, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from capitals 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 capitals produce 199 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.