14 words come out when you unscramble OCTA, starting with OCTA itself: 6 in Scrabble, 7 in Words With Friends. OCTA has 3 anagrams here, ATOC, COAT and TACO, scoring 6 like OCTA itself. 4 letters: 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from OCTA split into 4 with 4 letters, 7 with 3 and 3 with 2.
Keep every letter of OCTA but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with OC · ending in TA · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to OCTA:
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with COAT and TACO (6 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts OCTA, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| OCTA itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 14) | 11 | 14 | 11 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
3 of the 14 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ATOC, OCTA and TOC.
With one more tile, the letters of OCTA spell the words below.