Hidden inside accrues sit accrues and accuser, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 94 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
accrues and accuser tie for the highest Scrabble score from accrues at 11 points. The top 10 of 94 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in accrues: one comes from rearranging its letters, and accrues 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 accrues and accuser, 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 accrues turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with accuse. For points, the strongest plays are accrue, accuse, cercus, cruces, and scarce — 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in accrues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, cause, cures, curse, races, sauce, and scare. For points, the strongest play is cusec — 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 accrues produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cars, case, cues, cure, ears, and eras. For points, the strongest play is ceca — 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 accrues turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, car, cue, ear, era, sea, and sue. For points, the strongest plays are ace, arc, car, cru, cue, cur, ecu, rec, sac, and sec — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in accrues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and us. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, er, es, re, and us — 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 accrues 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.
accrues 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 two senses for accrues. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
accrues is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing accrues unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are accrues and accuser, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from accrues 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 accrues produce 94 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.