Unscramble CALCEOLATE and you have 160 words, CALCEOLATE itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The 10 letters split into 5 vowels and 5 consonants.
C34A1L12C34E1O1L12A1T1E1
Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from CALCEOLATE split into 1 with 10 letters, 3 with 8, 7 with 7, 13 with 6, 25 with 5, 58 with 4, 39 with 3 and 14 with 2. None has 9 letters.
6 of 58 4-letter words made with CALCEOLATE letters tie at 8 points; none scores more. CALL, CELL and TELL will look familiar.
Of the 39 3-letter words you get when you unscramble CALCEOLATE, 15 score 5 points, the group's best. ALL, LET and ACT are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of CALCEOLATE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with CA · ending in TE · all 10-letter words
What CALCEOLATE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
CALCEOLATE is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US and Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CALCEOLATE itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 160) | 137 | 160 | 129 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
23 of the 160 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CACOLET, ACCA, ECCE, ECCO, CLOTE, COATE, LACET, ALCO, ATOC, CLAT, COLL, OCTA and 11 more. 8 of the 160 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: CALCEOLATE, CALLEE, TELCO, CAL, ECO, LOC, TEC and TE.
This word takes every letter of CALCEOLATE plus a single extra one.