Hidden inside curtilage sit curtilage and graticule, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 383 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
curtilage and graticule tie for the highest Scrabble score from curtilage at 12 points. The top 10 of 383 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in curtilage: one comes from rearranging its letters, and curtilage 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 curtilage and graticule, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in curtilage. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is reticula, 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 curtilage produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with article, cigaret, and recital. For points, the strongest plays are cigaret, glacier, and gracile — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling curtilage turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with garlic, guitar, ritual, tragic, and uglier. For points, the strongest plays are cagier, garlic, and tragic — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 107 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in curtilage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, argue, cater, cigar, clear, and cruel. For points, the strongest plays are cager, cigar, glace, and grace — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in curtilage produces 115 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cage, care, cart, clue, cult, cure, and curl. For points, the strongest plays are cage, clag, cleg, crag, and guac — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling curtilage turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age, air, are, art, ate, and car. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in curtilage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in curtilage plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in curtilage 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.
curtilage 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for curtilage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
curtilage is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing curtilage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are curtilage and graticule, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from curtilage 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 curtilage produce 383 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 107 five-letter words, 115 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.