Unscramble CARTES and you have 149 words, CARTES itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. 8 anagrams of CARTES are on the page, CARETS, CASTER and CATERS included; each is 8 points. The 6 letters split into 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from CARTES by length: 9 with 6 letters, 39 with 5, 53 with 4, 36 with 3 and 12 with 2.
39 5-letter words made with CARTES letters; 26 of them share the top score of 7. RATES, ACRES and TRACE are everyday picks.
Of the 53 4-letter words you get when you unscramble CARTES, 22 score 6 points, the group's best. CASE, CARE and RATE are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of CARTES for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 6-letter words: starting with CA · ending in ES · all 6-letter words
What CARTES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept CARTES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARTES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 149) | 128 | 149 | 116 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CRESTA, ACERS, SCEAT, SCRAE, SCRAT, ACER, AESC, CEAS, ARETS, EARST, REAST, STEAR and 9 more, 21 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: CERTS, CERT, TECS, RESAT, TASER, TEC, TASE, TRES, ATS, EST, TES and TE, 12 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of CARTES and one more.