Hidden inside accretion sit accretion and anorectic, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 365 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
accretion and anorectic tie for the highest Scrabble score from accretion at 13 points. The top 10 of 365 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in accretion: one comes from rearranging its letters, and accretion itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are accretion and anorectic, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in accretion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reaction. For points, the strongest plays are accentor, acentric, acetonic, cocinera, concerti, cratonic, narcotic, and necrotic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in accretion produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with certain, cocaine, and concert. For points, the strongest plays are acronic, acrotic, centric, cerotic, cocaine, coenact, conceit, concert, cornice, crocein, crocine, oceanic, and orectic — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling accretion turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with accent, action, cancer, carton, erotic, and notice. For points, the strongest plays are accent, acetic, arctic, cancer, cantic, cicero, cocain, cretic, and ocicat — 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 83 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in accretion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, cater, nicer, ocean, react, and train. For points, the strongest plays are cacti, cerci, ceric, circa, coact, conic, and croci — 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 accretion produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cart, cent, coat, coin, cone, and core. For points, the strongest plays are ceca, coca, and croc — each 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 accretion turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, ant, are, art, ate, and can. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, can, car, cat, con, cor, cot, eco, ice, oca, orc, rec, roc, tec, and tic — 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in accretion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, it, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, an, ar, at, en, er, et, in, it, na, ne, no, oe, oi, on, or, re, ta, te, ti, 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in accretion plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in accretion and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
accretion 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for accretion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
accretion is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing accretion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are accretion and anorectic, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from accretion 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 accretion produce 365 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 83 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.