category needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 204 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
category is the highest-scoring word from category, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 204 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in category — and it is category itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling category turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is gyrate, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in category. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, cater, gayer, grace, great, and react. For points, the strongest play is cagey — 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 category produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cage, care, cart, coat, core, gate, and goat. For points, the strongest play is cagy — 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 category turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age, ago, are, art, ate, and aye. For points, the strongest plays are cay, coy, and cry — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in category. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, ay, go, or, oy, to, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, ye, and yo — each worth 5 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 category and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
category 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 two senses for category. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
category is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing category unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is category, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from category 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 category produce 204 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.