Hidden inside graticules sit curtilages and graticules, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1005 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
curtilages and graticules tie for the highest Scrabble score from graticules at 13 points. The top 10 of 1005 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in graticules: one comes from rearranging its letters, and graticules 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 curtilages and graticules, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling graticules 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 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 21 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in graticules. If a familiar word is all you need, start with articles, cigarets, curliest, and recitals. For points, the strongest plays are agrestic, cigarets, ergastic, gestical, glaciers, graciles, and surgical — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in graticules produces 78 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with article, cigaret, garlics, guitars, largest, recital, and rituals. For points, the strongest plays are cagiest, cigaret, garlics, gastric, glacier, gracile, scutage, and tragics — 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 graticules turns up 200 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, argues, castle, caters, cigars, and clears. For points, the strongest plays are cagers, cagier, cigars, garlic, gestic, glaces, glacis, graces, 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 297 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in graticules. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert, alter, argue, rules, sauce, and scale. For points, the strongest plays are scrag, cager, cages, cigar, clags, clegs, crags, glace, grace, and guacs — 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 graticules produces 260 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ages, airs, arts, cage, care, and cars. For points, the strongest plays are cage, cigs, clag, cleg, crag, guac, and scag — 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 graticules turns up 119 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in graticules. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, it, and us. 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.
graticules 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 graticules. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
graticules is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing graticules unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are curtilages and graticules, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from graticules 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 graticules produce 1005 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 21 eight-letter words, 78 seven-letter words, 200 six-letter words, 297 five-letter words, 260 four-letter words, 119 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.