capture needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 142 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
capture is the highest-scoring word from capture, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 142 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in capture — and it is capture itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling capture turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpet. For points, the strongest plays are apercu, carpet, preact, precut, and teacup — 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 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in capture. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cater, cuter, and react. For points, the strongest plays are caper, caput, crape, crept, epact, pacer, and recap — 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 capture produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cape, care, cart, crap, cure, cute, and pact. For points, the strongest plays are cape, carp, crap, pace, pact, perc, and puce — 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 capture turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ape, are, art, ate, cap, and car. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, cup, pac, and pec — 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 capture. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and up. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, 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 capture 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.
capture 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 eleven senses for capture. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
capture is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing capture unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is capture, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from capture 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 capture produce 142 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.