Hidden inside cathepsins sit cathepsins and patchiness, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 861 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cathepsins and patchiness tie for the highest Scrabble score from cathepsins at 17 points. The top 10 of 861 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in cathepsins: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cathepsins 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 cathepsins and patchiness, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cathepsins turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cathepsin, pastiches, pistaches, and spinaches, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 30 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cathepsins. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chipsets, haptenic, hepatics and 4 more, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cathepsins produces 89 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with panties, patches and pinches. For points, 14 words tie at 14 points, including patches, pinches and pitches.
Unscrambling cathepsins turns up 155 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cashes, chains and chases. For points, 9 words tie at 13 points, including capish, chapes and cheaps.
There are 229 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cathepsins. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saint, scent and seats. For points, 11 words tie at 12 points, including cheap, chips and patch.
Rearranging the letters in cathepsins produces 217 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants and apes. For points, the strongest plays are caph, chap, chip, and pech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cathepsins turns up 107 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and ape. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including hip, chi and hap.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cathepsins. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and as. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in cathepsins plus one additional letter.
cathepsins 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
cathepsins is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cathepsins unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cathepsins and patchiness, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cathepsins 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 cathepsins produce 861 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 nine-letter words, 30 eight-letter words, 89 seven-letter words, 155 six-letter words, 229 five-letter words, 217 four-letter words, 107 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.