Hidden inside careless sit careless and rescales, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 201 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
careless and rescales tie for the highest Scrabble score from careless at 10 points. The top 10 of 201 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in careless: one comes from rearranging its letters, and careless itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are careless and rescales, each 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 careless produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cereals. For points, the strongest plays are carless, cereals, classer, creases, relaces, rescale, scalers, sclerae, and scleras — 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 careless turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ceases, cereal, clears, erases, lasers, leases, and recess. For points, the strongest plays are caress, carles, carses, ceases, cereal, clears, crases, crease, creels, escars, lacers, recess, relace, scaler, scales, scares, sclera, screes, and seracs — 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 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in careless. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, cases, cease, class, clear, eases, and erase. For points, the strongest plays are acres, alecs, cares, carle, carls, carse, cases, cease, ceres, class, clear, crass, creel, cress, escar, lacer, laces, races, scale, scare, scars, scree, and serac — 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 careless produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cars, case, ears, ease, else, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acre, alec, arcs, cals, care, carl, cars, case, cees, cels, cere, cess, lace, lacs, race, recs, sacs, scar, and secs — 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 careless turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ass, car, ear, era, sea, and see. For points, the strongest plays are ace, arc, cal, car, cee, cel, lac, rec, sac, and sec — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in careless. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, ar, as, el, er, es, la, and re — each worth 2 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 careless 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.
careless 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for careless. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
careless is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing careless unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are careless and rescales, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from careless 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 careless produce 201 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.