Hidden inside citeable sit celibate and citeable, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 134 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
celibate and citeable tie for the highest Scrabble score from citeable at 12 points. The top 10 of 134 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in citeable: one comes from rearranging its letters, and citeable itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are celibate and citeable, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling citeable produces exactly one seven-letter word: citable. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in citeable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cable, elect, and table. For points, the strongest plays are cable, ceiba, and celeb — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in citeable produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bail and bait. For points, the strongest play is bice — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling citeable turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ate and bat. For points, the strongest play is cab — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in citeable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, be, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in citeable plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in citeable 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.
citeable 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
citeable is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing citeable unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are celibate and citeable, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from citeable 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 citeable produce 134 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.