Hidden inside categories sit categories and categorise, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 754 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
categories and categorise tie for the highest Scrabble score from categories at 13 points. The top 10 of 754 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in categories: one comes from rearranging its letters, and categories itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are categories and categorise, 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 categories produces exactly one nine-letter word: esoterica. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in categories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cigarets. For points, the strongest plays are agrestic, cigarets, corteges, ecotages, ergastic, escargot, and orgastic — 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 categories produces 54 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cigaret, coaster, creates, and storage. For points, the strongest plays are argotic, cagiest, cargoes, cigaret, corsage, cortege, ecotage, ergotic, gastric, socager, and tragics — 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 categories turns up 136 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actors, agrees, caters, cigars, create, easier, and easter. For points, the strongest plays are cagers, cagier, cargos, cigars, corgis, gestic, graces, orgiac, socage, and tragic — 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 214 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in categories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, agree, cages, cares, carts, cater, and cease. For points, the strongest plays are cager, cages, cargo, cigar, corgi, crags, grace, orgic, and scrag — 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 categories produces 203 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ages, airs, arts, cage, care, and cars. For points, the strongest plays are cage, cigs, cogs, crag, and scag — 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 categories turns up 110 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age, ago, air, are, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in categories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, go, is, it, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, 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.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in categories plus one additional letter.
categories 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 categories. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
categories is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing categories unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are categories and categorise, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from categories 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 categories produce 754 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 10 eight-letter words, 54 seven-letter words, 136 six-letter words, 214 five-letter words, 203 four-letter words, 110 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.