Hidden inside caption sit caption and paction, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 119 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
caption and paction tie for the highest Scrabble score from caption at 11 points. The top 10 of 119 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in caption: one comes from rearranging its letters, and caption itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are caption and paction, 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 caption turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action. For points, the strongest plays are atopic and catnip — 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 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in caption. If a familiar word is all you need, start with paint, panic, piano, point, and topic. For points, the strongest plays are capon, capot, coapt, optic, panic, picot, 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 caption produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coat, coin, into, pact, pain, and taco. For points, the strongest plays are capo, copi, pact, and pica — 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 caption turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, can, cap, cat, con, and cop. 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in caption. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, it, no, on, 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 caption and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
caption 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 four senses for caption. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
caption is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing caption unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are caption and paction, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from caption 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 caption produce 119 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.