Hidden inside cathouses sit cathouses and soutaches, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 379 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cathouses and soutaches tie for the highest Scrabble score from cathouses at 14 points. The top 10 of 379 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in cathouses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cathouses 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 cathouses and soutaches, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cathouses. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cathouse and soutache, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cathouses produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with touches. For points, the strongest plays are chaoses, chouses, cushats, hocuses, sachets, scathes, scouths, touches, and tusches — 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 cathouses turns up 55 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cashes, causes, chases, cheats, chests, coasts, and houses. For points, the strongest plays are cashes, chases, chasse, chaste, cheats, chests, choses, chouse, chuses, chutes, coshes, couths, cushat, ouches, sachet, sauchs, scathe, scouth, taches, touche, and tusche — 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 100 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cathouses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, autos, cases, casts, cause, chaos, and chase. For points, the strongest plays are aches, caths, chaos, chase, chats, cheat, chess, chest, chose, chuse, chute, couth, echos, hocus, oches, sauch, tache, tachs, teach, techs, teuch, theca, and touch — 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 cathouses produces 114 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, auto, case, cash, cast, cats, and chat. For points, the strongest plays are ache, cash, cath, chao, chat, cosh, each, echo, echt, etch, oche, ouch, such, tach, and tech — 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 cathouses turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ash, ass, ate, cat, cue, and cut. For points, the strongest play is och — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cathouses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, eh, ha, he, and ho. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, ho, oh, sh, and uh — 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 cathouses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cathouses 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.
cathouses 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.
cathouses is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cathouses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cathouses and soutaches, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cathouses 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 cathouses produce 379 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 55 six-letter words, 100 five-letter words, 114 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.