cartridges 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, 726 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cartridges is the highest-scoring word from cartridges, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 726 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in cartridges — and it is cartridges itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cartridges turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cartridge and disgracer, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cartridges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cigarets. For points, the strongest play is disgrace — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cartridges produces 62 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carried, carries and cigaret. For points, the strongest play is cadgers — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cartridges turns up 141 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, caters and cigars. For points, the strongest plays are cadger, cadges, and graced — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 213 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cartridges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cages, cards and cared. For points, the strongest plays are cadge and caged — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cartridges produces 184 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts and aged. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including acid, cage and card.
Unscrambling cartridges turns up 94 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads and age. For points, the strongest plays are cad and cig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cartridges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, 7 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and ag.
cartridges 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 cartridges. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
cartridges is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cartridges unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cartridges, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cartridges 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 cartridges produce 726 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 62 seven-letter words, 141 six-letter words, 213 five-letter words, 184 four-letter words, 94 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.