Hidden inside curtailer sit curtailer and reticular, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 308 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
curtailer and reticular tie for the highest Scrabble score from curtailer at 11 points. The top 10 of 308 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in curtailer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and curtailer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are curtailer and reticular, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in curtailer. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are reticula and turrical, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in curtailer produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with article, curlier and recital. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including article, curlier and recital.
Unscrambling curtailer turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ritual. For points, 34 words tie at 8 points, including aculei, acuter and atelic.
There are 88 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in curtailer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and cater. For points, 50 words tie at 7 points, including cater, clear and cruel.
Rearranging the letters in curtailer produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cart and clue. For points, 34 words tie at 6 points, including care, cart and clue.
Unscrambling curtailer turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and are. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including act, car and cat.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in curtailer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and it. For points, 16 words tie at 2 points, including at, it and ae.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in curtailer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in curtailer and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
curtailer 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
curtailer is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing curtailer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are curtailer and reticular, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from curtailer 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 curtailer produce 308 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 88 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.