Hidden inside cathedrae sit cathedrae and deathcare, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 263 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cathedrae and deathcare tie for the highest Scrabble score from cathedrae at 15 points. The top 10 of 263 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in cathedrae: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cathedrae 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 cathedrae and deathcare, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cathedrae. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cathedra, detacher, headrace, and racheted, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cathedrae produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catered, charade, cheated, cheater, created, reached, and reacted. For points, the strongest plays are cathead, charade, charted, cheated, reached, and retched — 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 cathedrae turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with create and heated. For points, the strongest plays are arched, cathed, chadar, chared, cheder, datcha, detach, echard, etched, and teched — 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 66 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cathedrae. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, ahead, cared, cater, chart, cheat, and cheer. For points, the strongest plays are ached, chard, dacha, and eched — 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 cathedrae produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, card, care, cart, chat, dare, and data. For points, the strongest play is chad — 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 cathedrae turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, act, aha, are, art, ate, and car. For points, the strongest plays are dah, edh, and had — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cathedrae. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in cathedrae plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cathedrae 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.
cathedrae 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in cathedrae carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
cathedrae is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cathedrae unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cathedrae and deathcare, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cathedrae 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 cathedrae produce 263 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 66 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.