Hidden inside catalogues sit catalogues and coagulates, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 509 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
catalogues and coagulates tie for the highest Scrabble score from catalogues at 13 points. The top 10 of 509 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in catalogues: one comes from rearranging its letters, and catalogues itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catalogues. For points, the strongest plays are catalogues and coagulates — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling catalogues turns up 4 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catalogue. For points, the strongest plays are catalogue, coagulase, coagulate, and galactose — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catalogues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catalogs. For points, the strongest plays are cagoules, catalogs, and gelcoats — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in catalogues produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catalog and locates. For points, the strongest plays are cagoule, catalog, coagula, gelcoat, glucose, scalage, and scutage — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling catalogues turns up 54 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actual, castle, casual, closet, and locate. For points, the strongest plays are glaces, guacos, and socage — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 128 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catalogues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos, cages, cause, close, clues, coast, and coats. For points, the strongest plays are cages, clags, clegs, clogs, glace, guaco, and guacs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in catalogues produces 177 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ages, also, auto, last, late, and legs. For points, the strongest plays are scag, cage, clag, cleg, clog, cogs, and guac — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling catalogues turns up 93 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age, ago, ate, cat, cue, and cut. For points, the strongest play is cog — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catalogues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, go, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in catalogues plus one additional letter.
catalogues 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 4-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 catalogues. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
catalogues is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing catalogues unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are catalogues and coagulates, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from catalogues 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 catalogues produce 509 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 54 six-letter words, 128 five-letter words, 177 four-letter words, 93 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.