Hidden inside catering sit argentic, catering, creating and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 283 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
argentic, catering, creating and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from catering at 11 points. The top 10 of 283 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in catering: three come from rearranging its letters, and catering itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catering, creating, and reacting. For points, the strongest plays are argentic, catering, creating, and reacting — 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 catering produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with certain, cigaret, and tearing. For points, the strongest plays are anergic, carting, cigaret, crating, and tracing — 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 catering turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting, caring, eating, racing, rating, and tragic. For points, the strongest plays are acting, arcing, cagier, caring, cering, cringe, incage, racing, 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 63 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, cater, cigar, giant, grace, and grant. For points, the strongest plays are acing, cager, cigar, genic, and grace — 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 catering produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cage, care, cart, cent, earn, gain, and gate. For points, the strongest plays are cage and crag — 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 catering turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age, air, ant, are, art, and ate. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 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 catering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 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 catering 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.
catering 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 3-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 catering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
catering is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing catering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are argentic, catering, creating, and reacting, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from catering 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 catering produce 283 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 63 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.