Hidden inside citronella sit citronella and interlocal, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 698 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
citronella and interlocal tie for the highest Scrabble score from citronella at 12 points. The top 10 of 698 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in citronella: one comes from rearranging its letters, and citronella itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are citronella and interlocal, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling citronella turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clarionet, collinear, coralline, and corallite, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in citronella. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reaction and relation. For points, 19 words tie at 10 points, including reaction, acrolein and actioner.
Rearranging the letters in citronella produces 47 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with article, central, certain, and recital. For points, 32 words tie at 9 points, including article, central and certain.
Unscrambling citronella turns up 145 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, caller and carton. For points, 89 words tie at 8 points, including action, caller and carton.
There are 167 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in citronella. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, alert and alien. For points, 79 words tie at 7 points, including actor, cater and clean.
Rearranging the letters in citronella produces 192 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lane, late and lean. For points, 63 words tie at 6 points, including lice, nice and once.
Unscrambling citronella turns up 92 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and all. For points, 22 words tie at 5 points, including act, can and car.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in citronella. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and in. For points, 27 words tie at 2 points, including an, at and in.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in citronella plus one additional letter.
citronella 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
citronella is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing citronella unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are citronella and interlocal, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from citronella 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 citronella produce 698 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 22 eight-letter words, 47 seven-letter words, 145 six-letter words, 167 five-letter words, 192 four-letter words, 92 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.