Jumble solved
Is CAPTIOUSLY a word? Yes.
CAPTIOUSLY is a valid word in the Scrabble dictionary — 10 letters, worth 17 points before any premium squares. It rearranges into 1 anagram, with 615 words hidden inside it.
- Total words
- 615
- Full anagrams
- 1
- Longest answer
- 10 letters
- Vowels : consonants
- 4 : 6
To solve the scramble by hand, set the 4 vowels (A, I, O, U) aside first, then try common beginnings and endings — re-, un-, -ing, -ed, -er — against the 6 remaining consonants (C, P, T, S, L, Y).
Anagrams of CAPTIOUSLY
One word uses all 10 letters:
- captiously
10-letter words
1 word found8-letter words
7 words found7-letter words
40 words found- calypso14
- copyist14
- cosplay14
- octuply14
- opacity14
- paucity14
- typical14
- autopsy12
- outplay12
- pastily12
- payouts12
- piously12
- saucily12
- soapily12
- soupily12
+ 25 more 7-letter words
6-letter words
70 words found- atypic13
- copays13
- coypus13
- policy13
- acuity11
- cosily11
- costly11
- coyaus11
- layups11
- octyls11
- payout11
- platys11
- polity11
- sluicy11
- atopic10
+ 55 more 6-letter words
5-letter words
167 words found- copay12
- copsy12
- coypu12
- spacy12
- spicy12
- typic12
- acyls10
- aptly10
- atopy10
- clays10
- cloys10
- coaly10
- coyau10
- layup10
- lytic10
+ 152 more 5-letter words
4-letter words
197 words found+ 182 more 4-letter words
3-letter words
106 words found+ 91 more 3-letter words
2-letter words
27 words found+ 12 more 2-letter words
Words hidden inside CAPTIOUSLY
Without moving a single letter, reading captiously straight through uncovers 4 shorter words — captious, apt, cap, sly. The longest unbroken run is captious.
Related jumbles to try
Shorter words inside CAPTIOUSLY — solve each on its own:
Best words for tile games
Playing Scrabble or Words with Friends? These finds carry the highest tile values (before any bonus squares).
Letter breakdown
Total Letters
10
Distinct
10
Vowels
40%
A, I, O, U
Consonants
60%
C, P, T, S, L, Y
Browse more word lists
Explore every word of a given length — each links to its anagrams and solution.
Practise your unscrambling
Unscrambling gets faster with reps — these two are built for that.
Solving CAPTIOUSLY: common questions
How do you unscramble the letters captiously?
Rearranging the 10 letters in captiously produces 615 valid words in total. A quick way to crack a scramble is to pull the vowels out first, then test familiar beginnings and endings (such as re-, un-, -ing, -ed and -er) against the consonants that are left. That approach lands the 10-letter answer captiously here. Every arrangement below is checked against a standard word list, so anything listed is a real word.
Does captiously have any anagrams?
Using all 10 letters, captiously rearranges into exactly one word: captiously.
What is the longest word you can make from captiously?
The longest solution is captiously at 10 letters — it uses the most tiles of any word here.
What are the easiest short words from captiously?
Short answers are the quickest to spot: captiously yields act, ail, ais, ait, alp, als, alt, apo, apt and asp. Two- and three-letter words are handy for warming up, for tricky racks, and for hooking onto letters already on the board in games like Scrabble and Words with Friends.
Which word from captiously scores best in Scrabble or Words with Friends?
If you are playing a tile game, captiously is the top scorer from captiously at 17 points, followed by calypso (14), copyist (14) and cosplay (14). Scores depend on the board, but these are the highest face values before any bonus squares.
What smaller words are hidden inside captiously?
Read left to right without moving any letters and captiously already contains 4 shorter words: captious, apt, cap and sly. The longest run of consecutive letters that spells a word is captious. Because this depends on the exact order, each spelling of the same letters hides a different set.