152 words come out when you unscramble CENTARE, starting with CENTARE itself: 9 in Scrabble, 11 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 9 points: CRENATE and REENACT. The best shorter words score 8: 20 of them, CENTER, RECENT and CREATE included. 7 letters: 3 vowels and 4 consonants. CENTARE as a single 7-tile play makes 59 in Scrabble, 9 plus the 50 bonus, and 46 in Words With Friends (11 + 35).
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from CENTARE split into 3 with 7 letters, 23 with 6, 30 with 5, 44 with 4, 38 with 3 and 14 with 2.
20 of 23 6-letter words made with CENTARE letters tie at 8 points; none scores more. CENTER, RECENT and CREATE will look familiar.
Of the 30 5-letter words you get when you unscramble CENTARE, 17 score 7 points, the group's best. ENTER, TRACE and CRANE are the ones most people know.
Among 44 4-letter words from CENTARE, the top score is 6, reached by 19. CARE, RATE and TEEN are the familiar ones.
Trade one tile of CENTARE for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 7-letter words: starting with CE · ending in RE · all 7-letter words
What CENTARE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept CENTARE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CENTARE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 152) | 125 | 152 | 120 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 27 of them: CREANT, ENRACE, CERNE, CRENA, CTENE, ACER, ANCE, CRAN, CREE, RATEEN, EARNT, REATE and 15 more. Words With Friends* skips 5 of them: CERT, ARENE, TEC, NARE and TE.
These 12 words take every letter of CENTARE plus a single extra one.