Unscramble CATACLYSM and you have 163 words, CATACLYSM itself among them: it scores 18 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 2 vowels and 7 consonants.
C34A1T1A1C34L12Y43S1M34
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from CATACLYSM split into 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 7, 5 with 6, 42 with 5, 60 with 4, 41 with 3 and 12 with 2. None has 8 letters.
42 5-letter words from CATACLYSM; 4 of them share the top score of 12. ATLAS, SALTY and CLAMS are everyday picks.
The 4-letter words you get when you unscramble CATACLYSM are led by CYMA and MYCS, 11 points each. STAY, CAST and ACTS are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of CATACLYSM but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with CA · ending in SM · all 9-letter words
CATACLYSM first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. CATACLYSM 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CATACLYSM itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 163) | 121 | 163 | 112 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 42 of them: YACCAS, AMYTALS, CALMY, YACCA, AMYTAL, LYAMS, MASTY, ACCAS, LYAM, LYMS, MACAS, MATY and 30 more. Words With Friends* skips 9 of them: MYCS, MYC, TALCY, CALS, MASA, YAS, CAL, SALAT and ATS.
With one more tile, the letters of CATACLYSM spell the words below.