caricature needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 200 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
caricature is the highest-scoring word from caricature, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 200 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in caricature — and it is caricature itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in caricature. If a familiar word is all you need, start with accurate. For points, the strongest plays are accurate, cercaria, and cruciate — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in caricature produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with recruit. For points, the strongest play is acratic — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling caricature turns up 26 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are accrue, acetic, arctic and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in caricature. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cater, cuter and cutie. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including cacti, caeca and cerci.
Rearranging the letters in caricature produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, care and cart. For points, the strongest plays are caca and ceca — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling caricature turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and are. For points, 14 words tie at 5 points, including act, car and cat.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in caricature. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and it. For points, 13 words tie at 2 points, including at, it and aa.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in caricature plus one additional letter.
caricature 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 caricature. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
caricature is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing caricature unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is caricature, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from caricature 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 caricature produce 200 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.