Hidden inside cartagena sit carnage, cartage, and catagen, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 169 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
carnage, cartage, and catagen tie for the highest Scrabble score from cartagena at 10 points. The top 10 of 169 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in cartagena produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carnage, cartage, and catagen, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cartagena turns up 14 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arcana, arcane, canter and 8 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cartagena. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger and cater. For points, the strongest plays are cager and grace — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cartagena produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, cage and care. For points, the strongest plays are cage and crag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cartagena turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age and ant. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including act, can and car.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cartagena. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and at. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are carnage, cartage, and catagen, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cartagena 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 cartagena produce 169 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.