Unscramble CAPTIVATE to get 145 words. CAPTIVATE itself is a real word: 16 points on a Scrabble board, 19 in Words With Friends. 9 letters: 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
C34A1P34T1I1V45A1T1E1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from CAPTIVATE split into 1 with 9 letters, 4 with 8, 3 with 7, 13 with 6, 23 with 5, 41 with 4, 47 with 3 and 13 with 2.
6 of 41 4-letter words from CAPTIVATE tie at 9 points; none scores more. VICE, TAPE and CAPE will look familiar.
PAV and VAC share the top score of 8 among the 3-letter words in CAPTIVATE. ACT, CAT and PET are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of CAPTIVATE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with CA · ending in TE · all 9-letter words
What CAPTIVATE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. CAPTIVATE is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAPTIVATE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 145) | 118 | 145 | 112 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 27 of them: CIVE, PACTA, CAPA, CAPI, PAV, TAPETI, TIETAC, ATTAP, PATTE, TAPET, TAVA, VIAE and 15 more. Words With Friends* skips 6 of them: CAVA, VAPE, PITTA, ACAI, TEC and TE.
With one more tile, the letters of CAPTIVATE spell the words below.