Hidden inside captious sit autopsic and captious, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 223 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
autopsic and captious tie for the highest Scrabble score from captious at 12 points. The top 10 of 223 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in captious: one comes from rearranging its letters, and captious 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 autopsic and captious, 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 captious produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are psoatic and upcoast, 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 captious turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catsup, coitus, and topics. For points, the strongest plays are atopic, capots, catsup, coapts, optics, picots, topics, and upcast — 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 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in captious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos, coast, coats, pacts, scout, tacos, and topic. For points, the strongest plays are aspic, capos, capot, caput, coapt, coups, optic, pacts, picas, picot, pisco, scaup, 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 captious produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, auto, caps, cast, cats, coat, and cops. For points, the strongest plays are capo, caps, copi, cops, coup, cups, cusp, pacs, pact, pica, pics, scop, and scup — 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 captious turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, cap, cat, cop, cup, cut, and its. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cop, cup, 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in captious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, it, so, to, and up. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pi, po, and up — 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 captious 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.
captious 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 one sense for captious. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
captious is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing captious unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are autopsic and captious, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from captious 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 captious produce 223 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.