Hidden inside casserole sit casserole and escaroles, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 379 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
casserole and escaroles tie for the highest Scrabble score from casserole at 11 points. The top 10 of 379 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in casserole: one comes from rearranging its letters, and casserole 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 casserole and escaroles, 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 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in casserole. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are careless, coreless, escarole, escolars, lacrosse, rescales, sclerose, secalose, and solacers, 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 casserole produces 35 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cereals. For points, the strongest plays are acerose, carless, caseose, cereals, claroes, classer, closers, coalers, creases, creoles, cresols, ecloses, escolar, oracles, recoals, relaces, rescale, rosaces, scalers, sclerae, scleras, solacer, and solaces — 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 casserole turns up 65 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with across, ceases, cereal, clears, closer, closes, and erases. For points, the strongest plays are across, caress, carles, carols, carses, ceases, ceorls, cereal, claros, clears, closer, closes, coaler, coarse, corals, corses, crases, crease, creels, creole, cresol, crosse, eclose, escars, lacers, ocreae, ocreas, oracle, oscars, recess, recoal, relace, rosace, scaler, scales, scares, sclera, scores, screes, seracs, socles, and solace — 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 95 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in casserole. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, cases, cease, class, clear, close, and colas. For points, the strongest plays are acres, acros, alecs, calos, cares, carle, carls, carol, carse, cases, cease, ceorl, ceres, ceros, claro, class, clear, close, coals, colas, coles, coral, cores, corse, coses, crass, creel, cress, cross, escar, lacer, laces, ocrea, orcas, oscar, races, scale, scare, scars, score, scree, serac, socas, soces, and socle — 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 casserole produces 103 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, care, cars, case, cola, core, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acre, acro, alec, arco, arcs, calo, cals, care, carl, cars, case, cees, cels, cere, cero, cess, coal, cola, cole, cols, core, cors, coss, ecos, lace, lacs, loca, locs, ocas, orca, orcs, race, recs, rocs, sacs, scar, secs, and soca — 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 casserole turns up 56 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, col, cor, cos, eco, lac, loc, oca, orc, rec, roc, sac, sec, and soc — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in casserole. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, ar, as, el, er, es, la, lo, oe, or, os, re, and so — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in casserole plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in casserole 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.
casserole 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 two senses for casserole. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
casserole is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing casserole unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are casserole and escaroles, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from casserole 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 casserole produce 379 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 35 seven-letter words, 65 six-letter words, 95 five-letter words, 103 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.