Hidden inside castor sit actors, castor, costar and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 107 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
actors, castor, costar and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from castor at 8 points. The top 10 of 107 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in castor: four come from rearranging its letters, and castor itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actors and scrota. For points, the strongest plays are actors, castor, costar, scrota, and tarocs — 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 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in castor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, carts, coast, coats, roast, and tacos. For points, the strongest plays are acros, actor, ascot, carts, coast, coats, costa, orcas, oscar, scart, tacos, taroc, and torcs — 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 castor produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arts, cars, cart, cast, cats, and coat. For points, the strongest plays are acro, acts, arco, arcs, cars, cart, cast, cats, coat, cors, cost, cots, ocas, orca, orcs, rocs, scar, scat, scot, soca, taco, and torc — 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 castor turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, art, car, cat, rat, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are act, arc, car, cat, cor, cos, cot, oca, orc, roc, sac, 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in castor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ar, as, at, or, os, so, ta, and to — 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 castor and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
castor 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.
Dictionaries record five senses for castor. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
castor is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing castor unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are actors, castor, costar, scrota, and tarocs, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from castor 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 castor produce 107 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.