Hidden inside capitols sit capitols, coalpits, and topicals, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 331 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
capitols, coalpits, and topicals tie for the highest Scrabble score from capitols at 12 points. The top 10 of 331 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in capitols: two come from rearranging its letters, and capitols 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 capitols, coalpits, and topicals, 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 capitols produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with plastic. For points, the strongest plays are capitol, coalpit, optical, plastic, psoatic, and topical — 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 capitols turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pilots, social, spoilt, and topics. For points, the strongest plays are atopic, capots, claspt, coapts, copals, optics, picots, plicas, and topics — 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 79 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in capitols. If a familiar word is all you need, start with claps, clips, coast, coats, colas, pacts, and pilot. For points, the strongest plays are aspic, capos, capot, claps, clapt, clasp, clips, clipt, clops, coapt, copal, optic, pacts, pical, picas, picot, pisco, plica, scalp, scopa, spica, and topic — 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 capitols produces 124 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, also, laps, last, lips, list, and lost. For points, the strongest plays are pacs, pact, pica, pics, scop, capo, caps, clap, clip, clop, copi, and cops — 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 capitols turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, cap, cat, cop, its, lap, and lip. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cop, 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in capitols. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, it, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pi, and po — 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 capitols 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.
capitols 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 two senses for capitols. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
capitols is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing capitols unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are capitols, coalpits, and topicals, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from capitols 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 capitols produce 331 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 79 five-letter words, 124 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.