Hidden inside capitate sit apatetic and capitate, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apatetic and capitate tie for the highest Scrabble score from capitate at 12 points. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in capitate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and capitate 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 apatetic and capitate, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling capitate produces exactly one seven-letter word: apatite. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling capitate turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are capita and tipcat, 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in capitate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attic. For points, the strongest plays are apace and epact — 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 capitate produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cape, epic, pact, and tape. For points, the strongest plays are cape, epic, paca, pace, pact, pica, and pice — 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 capitate turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ape, ate, cap, cat, eat, and ice. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, pac, pec, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in capitate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, 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 capitate 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.
capitate 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for capitate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
capitate is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing capitate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are apatetic and capitate, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from capitate 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 capitate produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.