captures needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 421 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
captures is the highest-scoring word from captures, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 421 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in captures — and it is captures itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in captures produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capture and carpets. For points, the strongest plays are apercus, capture, carpets, cuspate, preacts, precast, precuts, scauper, spectra, and teacups — 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 captures turns up 56 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpet, caters, catsup, purest, reacts, and scrape. For points, the strongest plays are apercu, aspect, capers, carpet, carpus, catsup, crapes, epacts, escarp, pacers, parsec, preact, precut, recaps, scrape, secpar, spacer, spruce, teacup, 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 127 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in captures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, cares, carts, cater, cause, craps, and cures. For points, the strongest plays are caper, capes, caput, carps, crape, craps, crept, epact, pacer, paces, pacts, percs, puces, recap, scape, scarp, scaup, scrap, space, and spect — 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 captures produces 130 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, apes, arts, cape, caps, care, and cars. For points, the strongest plays are cape, caps, carp, ceps, crap, cups, cusp, pace, pacs, pact, pecs, perc, puce, scup, and spec — 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 captures turns up 77 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in captures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, up, and us. 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 captures 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.
captures 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 captures. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
captures is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing captures unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is captures, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from captures 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 captures produce 421 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 15 seven-letter words, 56 six-letter words, 127 five-letter words, 130 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.