Unscramble CARYATIC and you have 84 words, CARYATIC itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from CARYATIC by length: 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 3 with 6, 18 with 5, 25 with 4, 27 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Just 1 of the 7-letter words made with CARYATIC letters: ACRATIC, for 11 points.
Keep every letter of CARYATIC but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with CA · ending in IC · all 8-letter words
CARYATIC first, then short meanings for the 6 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept CARYATIC, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARYATIC itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 84) | 56 | 84 | 49 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: YACCA, CARACT, CRAIC, CRAY, RAIYAT, RICY, TICCA, ACCA, YARTA, ARTIC, CARTA, YAAR and 16 more, 28 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: ACRATIC, TAYRA, ACAI, CRIA, CRIT, RAITA and RAI, 7 in all.