Hidden inside citrate sit atretic, cattier, and citrate, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 106 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
atretic, cattier, and citrate tie for the highest Scrabble score from citrate at 9 points. The top 10 of 106 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in citrate: two come from rearranging its letters, and citrate 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 atretic, cattier, and citrate, 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 citrate turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is cattie, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in citrate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attic, cater, react, and treat. For points, the strongest plays are areic, attic, caret, carte, cater, ceria, citer, crate, erica, react, recit, recta, recti, tacet, tacit, tecta, trace, tract, triac, and trice — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in citrate produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cart, race, rate, rice, tear, and tire. For points, the strongest plays are acre, care, cart, cate, cert, cire, cite, cria, crit, etic, race, rice, tace, and tact — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling citrate turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, are, art, ate, car, and cat. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, car, cat, ice, rec, tec, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in citrate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, ar, at, er, et, it, re, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in citrate 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.
citrate 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for citrate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
citrate is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing citrate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are atretic, cattier, and citrate, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from citrate 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 citrate produce 106 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.