Hidden inside captions sit captions and pactions, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 311 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
captions and pactions tie for the highest Scrabble score from captions at 12 points. The top 10 of 311 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in captions: one comes from rearranging its letters, and captions 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 captions and pactions, 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 captions produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions. For points, the strongest plays are caption, catnips, paction, and psoatic — 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 captions turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, casino, paints, panics, pianos, points, and topics. For points, the strongest plays are atopic, capons, capots, catnip, coapts, optics, panics, picots, 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 75 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in captions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coast, coats, coins, pacts, pains, paint, and panic. For points, the strongest plays are aspic, capon, capos, capot, coapt, optic, pacts, panic, picas, picot, pisco, 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 captions produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, cans, caps, cast, cats, and coat. For points, the strongest plays are capo, caps, copi, cops, pacs, pact, pica, pics, and scop — 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 captions turns up 69 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in captions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and no. 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 captions 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.
captions 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 captions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
captions is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing captions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are captions and pactions, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from captions 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 captions produce 311 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 75 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.