Hidden inside caterers sit caterers, recrates, retraces and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 234 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
caterers, recrates, retraces and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from caterers at 10 points. The top 10 of 234 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in caterers: three come from rearranging its letters, and caterers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caterers. For points, the strongest plays are caterers, recrates, retraces, and terraces — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in caterers produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with careers, caterer, and creates. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including careers, caterer and creates.
Unscrambling caterers turns up 44 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, career and caters. For points, 24 words tie at 8 points, including career, caters and create.
There are 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in caterers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, carts and cater. For points, 31 words tie at 7 points, including cares, carts and cater.
Rearranging the letters in caterers produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arts and care. For points, 23 words tie at 6 points, including acts, care and cars.
Unscrambling caterers turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are and art. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including act, car and cat.
11 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in caterers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in caterers and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
caterers 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 1-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 caterers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
caterers is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing caterers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are caterers, recrates, retraces, and terraces, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from caterers 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 caterers produce 234 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 44 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.