Hidden inside catkins sit anticks and catkins, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
anticks and catkins tie for the highest Scrabble score from catkins at 13 points. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in catkins: one comes from rearranging its letters, and catkins itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anticks and catkins, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling catkins turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antick and catkin, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catkins. If a familiar word is all you need, start with knits, saint and snack. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including snack, stick and ticks.
Rearranging the letters in catkins produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants and cans. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including sack, sick and tick.
Unscrambling catkins turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and ask. For points, the strongest plays are ack and ick — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catkins. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in catkins plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in catkins and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
catkins 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for catkins. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
catkins is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing catkins unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are anticks and catkins, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from catkins 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 catkins produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.