Hidden inside craterlets sit clatterers and craterlets, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 514 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clatterers and craterlets tie for the highest Scrabble score from craterlets at 12 points. The top 10 of 514 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in craterlets: one comes from rearranging its letters, and craterlets 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 clatterers and craterlets, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling craterlets turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clatterer, craterlet, raclettes and 2 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in craterlets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caterers and clearest. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including caterers, clearest and clatters.
Rearranging the letters in craterlets produces 60 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with careers, caterer and cereals. For points, 30 words tie at 9 points, including careers, caterer and cereals.
Unscrambling craterlets turns up 113 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters and arrest. For points, 47 words tie at 8 points, including career, castle and caters.
There are 129 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in craterlets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and cares. For points, 50 words tie at 7 points, including cares, carts and cater.
Rearranging the letters in craterlets produces 113 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arts and care. For points, 32 words tie at 6 points, including acts, care and cars.
Unscrambling craterlets turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are and art. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including act, car and cat.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in craterlets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, 13 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and ae.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in craterlets plus one additional letter.
craterlets 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.
craterlets is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing craterlets unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are clatterers and craterlets, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from craterlets 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 craterlets produce 514 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 19 eight-letter words, 60 seven-letter words, 113 six-letter words, 129 five-letter words, 113 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.