Hidden inside redcap sit carped, craped, and redcap, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
carped, craped, and redcap tie for the highest Scrabble score from redcap at 11 points. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in redcap: two come from rearranging its letters, and redcap itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carped, craped, and redcap, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redcap. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cared and raced. For points, the strongest plays are caped and paced — each 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 redcap produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cape, card, care, crap, dare, dear, and race. For points, the strongest plays are cape, carp, crap, pace, and perc — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling redcap turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, cap, car, ear, era, and pad. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, pac, and pec — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redcap. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 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 redcap and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
redcap 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for redcap. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
redcap is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing redcap unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are carped, craped, and redcap, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from redcap 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 redcap produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.