Hidden inside catalogue sit catalogue and coagulate, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 185 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
catalogue and coagulate tie for the highest Scrabble score from catalogue at 12 points. The top 10 of 185 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in catalogue: one comes from rearranging its letters, and catalogue itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catalogue. For points, the strongest plays are catalogue and coagulate — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in catalogue produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catalog. For points, the strongest plays are cagoule, catalog, coagula, and gelcoat — 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 catalogue turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actual and locate. For points, the strongest plays are acetal, actual, acuate, catalo, coteau, and locate — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catalogue. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are glace and guaco, 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 catalogue produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auto, cage, clue, coat, cola, cult, and cute. For points, the strongest plays are cage, clag, cleg, clog, 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 catalogue turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age, ago, ate, cat, cue, and cut. For points, the strongest play is cog — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catalogue. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, go, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in catalogue plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in catalogue 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.
catalogue 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 four senses for catalogue. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
catalogue is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing catalogue unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are catalogue and coagulate, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from catalogue 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 catalogue produce 185 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.