Hidden inside curtals sit crustal and curtals, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 104 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crustal and curtals tie for the highest Scrabble score from curtals at 9 points. The top 10 of 104 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in curtals: one comes from rearranging its letters, and curtals itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crustal and curtals, 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 curtals turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are curtal and cutlas, 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 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in curtals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carts, cults, and curls. For points, the strongest plays are arcus, carls, carts, cauls, clast, crust, cults, curls, curst, scart, scaur, scuta, and talcs — 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 curtals produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arts, cars, cart, cast, cats, and cult. For points, the strongest plays are acts, arcs, cals, carl, cars, cart, cast, cats, caul, crus, cult, curl, curs, curt, cuts, lacs, scar, scat, scut, and talc — 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 curtals turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, art, car, cat, cut, rat, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are act, arc, cal, car, cat, cru, cur, cut, lac, and sac — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in curtals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and us. For points, the strongest plays are al, ar, as, at, la, ta, us, and ut — 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 curtals and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
curtals 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for curtals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
curtals is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing curtals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are crustal and curtals, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from curtals 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 curtals produce 104 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.