Hidden inside cating is one standout: acting, a six-letter play worth 9 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble CIGNAT, CIGANT or ACTNIG and you get the same 6 letters as CATING: so the words from CATING listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
CATING isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ACTING (noun), the occupation of an actor, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
acting is the highest-scoring word from cating, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling cating produces exactly one six-letter word: acting. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cating produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain. For points, the strongest plays are cain and cant — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cating turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and can. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cating. 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.
15 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in cating plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cating and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is acting, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cating 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 cating produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.