cartridge needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 295 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cartridge is the highest-scoring word from cartridge, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 295 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in cartridge — and it is cartridge itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cartridge produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carried and cigaret. For points, the strongest plays are acrider, carried, and cigaret — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cartridge turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credit, direct and grader. For points, the strongest plays are cadger and graced — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 86 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cartridge. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, aired and cared. For points, the strongest plays are cadge and caged — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cartridge produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, aged and cage. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including acid, cage and card.
Unscrambling cartridge turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age and aid. For points, the strongest plays are cad and cig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cartridge. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, id, and it. For points, 7 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and ag.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in cartridge plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cartridge 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.
cartridge 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 four senses for cartridge. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
cartridge is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cartridge unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cartridge, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cartridge 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 cartridge produce 295 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 86 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.