Hidden inside accost sit accost and coacts, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
accost and coacts tie for the highest Scrabble score from accost at 10 points. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in accost: one comes from rearranging its letters, and accost itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are accost and coacts, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in accost. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coast, coats, and tacos. For points, the strongest plays are coact and cocas — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in accost produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, cast, cats, coat, cost, and taco. For points, the strongest play is coca — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling accost turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, cat, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are act, cat, cos, cot, oca, sac, and soc — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in accost. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are as, at, os, so, ta, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in accost and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
accost is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for accost. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
accost is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing accost unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are accost and coacts, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from accost earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in accost produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.