catalepsy needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 372 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
catalepsy is the highest-scoring word from catalepsy, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 372 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in catalepsy — and it is catalepsy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catalepsy. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is playacts, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in catalepsy produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with palaces. For points, the strongest plays are cypsela, ectypal, and playact — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling catalepsy turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with castle, palace, places, and plates. For points, the strongest plays are spacey and yclept — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 105 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catalepsy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, claps and leaps. For points, the strongest plays are pacey and spacy — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in catalepsy produces 124 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, apes and laps. For points, the strongest play is pacy — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling catalepsy turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ape and ate. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including pay, spy and yep.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catalepsy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in catalepsy 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.
catalepsy 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 one sense for catalepsy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
catalepsy is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing catalepsy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is catalepsy, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from catalepsy 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 catalepsy produce 372 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 105 five-letter words, 124 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.