Hidden inside citrated sit citrated, tetracid, and tetradic, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 207 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
citrated, tetracid, and tetradic tie for the highest Scrabble score from citrated at 11 points. The top 10 of 207 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in citrated: two come from rearranging its letters, and citrated itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are citrated, tetracid, and tetradic, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in citrated produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are detract and dictate, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling citrated turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credit and direct. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including credit, direct and caried.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in citrated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, aired and attic. For points, 18 words tie at 8 points, including acted, cared and cried.
Rearranging the letters in citrated produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, card and care. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including acid, card and dice.
Unscrambling citrated turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aid and air. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in citrated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, id, and it. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in citrated plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in citrated and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
citrated 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.
citrated is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing citrated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are citrated, tetracid, and tetradic, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from citrated 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 citrated produce 207 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.