Hidden inside caritases sit caritases and staircase, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 374 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
caritases and staircase tie for the highest Scrabble score from caritases at 11 points. The top 10 of 374 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in caritases: one comes from rearranging its letters, and caritases itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are caritases and staircase, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in caritases. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: scariest, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in caritases produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actress and racists. For points, the strongest plays are actress, ascaris, ascites, atresic, caesars, carates, caritas, casitas, casters, cristae, ectasis, raciest, racists, recasts, sacrist, and stearic — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling caritases turns up 65 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caters, crises, racist, raises, reacts, resist, and scares. For points, the strongest plays are arecas, caesar, carate, carats, caress, carets, caries, carses, cartes, casita, cassia, caster, castes, caters, cerias, cestas, citers, crases, crasis, crates, crests, crises, crissa, crista, ericas, escars, racist, reacts, recast, recits, saices, scares, scarts, scries, seracs, steric, traces, triacs, and trices — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 112 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in caritases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, cares, carts, cases, casts, cater, and cries. For points, the strongest plays are acais, acari, aceta, acres, aecia, areca, areic, carat, cares, caret, carse, carte, carts, casas, cases, caste, casts, cater, cates, ceria, certs, cesta, cesti, cires, cists, citer, cites, crass, crate, cress, crest, crias, cries, crits, erica, escar, etics, races, react, recit, recta, recti, rices, sacra, saice, scare, scars, scart, scats, sects, serac, sices, taces, trace, triac, and trice — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in caritases produces 97 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs, area, arts, care, cars, and cart. For points, the strongest plays are acai, aces, acre, acta, acts, arcs, asci, care, cars, cart, casa, case, cast, cate, cats, cert, cess, cire, cist, cite, cria, cris, crit, etic, ices, race, recs, rice, sacs, scar, scat, secs, sect, sice, sics, tace, tecs, and tics — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling caritases turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, are, art, ass, ate, and car. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, car, cat, cis, ice, rec, sac, sec, sic, tec, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in caritases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, ai, ar, as, at, er, es, et, is, it, re, si, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in caritases plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in caritases and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
caritases 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
caritases is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing caritases unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are caritases and staircase, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from caritases 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 caritases produce 374 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 65 six-letter words, 112 five-letter words, 97 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.