Hidden inside citrates sit citrates, cristate, and scattier, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 314 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
citrates, cristate, and scattier tie for the highest Scrabble score from citrates at 10 points. The top 10 of 314 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in citrates: two come from rearranging its letters, and citrates 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 citrates, cristate, and scattier, 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 citrates produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tastier. For points, the strongest plays are astrict, atresic, atretic, cattier, catties, citrate, cristae, raciest, scatter, statice, stearic, and trisect — 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 citrates turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, attics, caters, racist, reacts, sitter, and strict. For points, the strongest plays are attics, carets, caries, cartes, caster, caters, cattie, cerias, citers, crates, crista, ericas, racist, reacts, recast, recits, stacte, static, steric, strict, traces, tracts, triacs, and trices — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in citrates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attic, cares, carts, cater, cries, races, and raise. For points, the strongest plays are acres, areic, attic, cares, caret, carse, carte, carts, caste, cater, cates, ceria, certs, cesta, cesti, cires, citer, cites, crate, crest, crias, cries, crits, erica, escar, etics, races, react, recit, recta, recti, rices, saice, scare, scart, scatt, serac, taces, tacet, tacit, tacts, 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 citrates produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs, arts, care, cars, cart, and case. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acre, acts, arcs, asci, care, cars, cart, case, cast, cate, cats, cert, cire, cist, cite, cria, cris, crit, etic, ices, race, recs, rice, scar, scat, sect, sice, tace, tact, tecs, and tics — 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 citrates turns up 56 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, cis, ice, rec, sac, sec, sic, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in citrates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, ar, as, at, er, es, et, is, it, re, si, 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 citrates 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.
citrates 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 citrates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
citrates is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing citrates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are citrates, cristate, and scattier, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from citrates 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 citrates produce 314 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.