Hidden inside accrual sit accrual and caracul, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 25 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
accrual and caracul tie for the highest Scrabble score from accrual at 11 points. The top 10 of 25 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in accrual: one comes from rearranging its letters, and accrual itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are accrual and caracul, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling accrual produces exactly one six-letter word: calcar. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in accrual. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is craal, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in accrual. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aa, al, ar, and la, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in accrual plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in accrual and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
accrual 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for accrual. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
accrual is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing accrual unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are accrual and caracul, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from accrual 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 accrual produce 25 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.