Hidden inside redcaps sit redcaps, scarped, and scraped, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 200 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
redcaps, scarped, and scraped tie for the highest Scrabble score from redcaps at 12 points. The top 10 of 200 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in redcaps: two come from rearranging its letters, and redcaps itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scraped. For points, the strongest plays are redcaps, scarped, and scraped — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling redcaps turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sacred, scared, scrape, spared, and spread. For points, the strongest plays are carped, craped, redcap, scaped, and spaced — 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 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redcaps. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, cards, cared, cares, craps, dares, and dears. 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 redcaps produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, cape, caps, card, care, cars, and case. For points, the strongest plays are cape, caps, carp, ceps, crap, pace, pacs, pecs, perc, and spec — 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 redcaps turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape, are, cap, car, ear, and era. 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redcaps. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and as. 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 redcaps 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.
redcaps 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 redcaps. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
redcaps is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing redcaps unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are redcaps, scarped, and scraped, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from redcaps 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 redcaps produce 200 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.