Hidden inside cateresses sit cateresses and cerasteses, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 298 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cateresses and cerasteses tie for the highest Scrabble score from cateresses at 12 points. The top 10 of 298 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in cateresses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cateresses 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 cateresses and cerasteses, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cateresses turns up 3 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actresses. For points, the strongest plays are actresses and sesterces — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cateresses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with recesses. For points, the strongest plays are caresses, cateress, cerastes, crassest, cressets, recesses, secretes, and sesterce — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cateresses produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actress, creates, easters, and secrets. For points, the strongest plays are actress, asceses, casters, cerates, creases, creates, creeses, cresses, cresset, ecartes, ectases, recasts, resects, secrete, and secrets — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cateresses turns up 58 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caters, ceases, create, easter, erases, reacts, and recess. For points, the strongest plays are caress, carets, carses, cartes, caster, castes, caters, ceases, cerate, certes, cesses, cestas, crases, crates, crease, create, creese, crests, ecarte, erects, escars, reacts, recast, recess, resect, scares, scarts, screes, secret, seracs, terces, and traces — 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 79 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cateresses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, cares, carts, cases, casts, cater, and cease. For points, the strongest plays are acres, cares, caret, carse, carte, carts, cases, caste, casts, cater, cates, cease, ceres, certs, cesta, cetes, crass, crate, cress, crest, erect, escar, races, react, recta, scare, scars, scart, scats, scree, sects, serac, taces, terce, and trace — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cateresses produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arts, care, cars, cart, case, and cast. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acre, acts, arcs, care, cars, cart, case, cast, cate, cats, cees, cere, cert, cess, cete, race, recs, sacs, scar, scat, secs, sect, tace, and tecs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cateresses turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are, art, ass, ate, car, and cat. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, car, cat, cee, rec, sac, sec, and tec — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cateresses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, at, er, es, et, re, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
cateresses 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.
cateresses is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cateresses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cateresses and cerasteses, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cateresses 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 cateresses produce 298 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 58 six-letter words, 79 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.