caput needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
caput is the highest-scoring word from caput, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in caput — and it is caput itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling caput produces exactly one four-letter word: pact. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling caput turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, cap, cat, cup, cut, put, and tap. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cup, and pac — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in caput. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and up. For points, the strongest plays are pa 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 caput and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
caput 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 two senses for caput. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
caput is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing caput unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is caput, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from caput 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 caput produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 1 four-letter word, 13 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.