Hidden inside caterings sit caterings and recasting, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 773 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
caterings and recasting tie for the highest Scrabble score from caterings at 12 points. The top 10 of 773 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in caterings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and caterings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are caterings and recasting, 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 27 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in caterings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angriest, catering, cigarets, creating, and reacting. For points, the strongest plays are agrestic, argentic, catering, cigarets, creasing, creating, cresting, cringest, ergastic, reacting, scarting, and tracings — 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 caterings produces 85 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with casting, ceasing, certain, cigaret, erasing, nastier, and ratings. For points, the strongest plays are actings, anergic, arcings, cagiest, carings, carting, casting, ceasing, cigaret, crating, cringes, gastric, incages, racings, sacring, scaring, tracing, 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 caterings turns up 147 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting, agents, angers, caring, caters, cigars, and easing. For points, the strongest plays are acting, arcing, cagers, cagier, caring, casing, cering, cigars, cringe, gestic, graces, 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 205 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in caterings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, cages, cares, carts, cater, and cents. For points, the strongest plays are acing, cager, cages, cigar, crags, genic, grace, 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 caterings produces 188 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ages, airs, ants, arts, cage, and cans. For points, the strongest plays are cage, cigs, 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 caterings turns up 97 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in caterings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, 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.
8 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in caterings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in caterings and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
caterings is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record one sense for caterings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
caterings is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing caterings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are caterings and recasting, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from caterings 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 caterings produce 773 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 27 eight-letter words, 85 seven-letter words, 147 six-letter words, 205 five-letter words, 188 four-letter words, 97 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.