Hidden inside actinides sit actinides, andesitic, and indicates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 408 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
actinides, andesitic, and indicates tie for the highest Scrabble score from actinides at 12 points. The top 10 of 408 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in actinides: two come from rearranging its letters, and actinides itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with indicates. For points, the strongest plays are actinides, andesitic, and indicates — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in actinides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with distance and indicate. For points, the strongest plays are actinide, ctenidia, danciest, distance, indicate, and sciaenid — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in actinides produces 29 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candies and instead. For points, the strongest plays are candies, dacites, decants, deistic, descant, diciest, discant, identic, incased, incised, incited, indices, indicts, and scanted — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling actinides turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cities, dances, inside, and nicest. For points, the strongest plays are ascend, cadent, cadets, canids, canted, cisted, citied, cnidae, dacite, dances, decani, decans, decant, dicast, edicts, indict, and nicads — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 107 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in actinides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, acted, aside, cents, dance, dates, and dices. For points, the strongest plays are acids, acned, acted, asdic, cades, cadet, cadis, caids, caned, canid, cased, cedis, cited, cnida, daces, dance, decan, dices, dicta, disci, edict, nicad, and scend — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in actinides produces 118 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts, aids, ants, cans, case, and cast. For points, the strongest plays are aced, acid, cade, cadi, cads, caid, cedi, dace, dice, disc, iced, and scad — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling actinides turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads, aid, and, ant, ate, and can. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 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 actinides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in actinides plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in actinides 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.
actinides 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 one sense for actinides. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
actinides is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing actinides unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are actinides, andesitic, and indicates, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from actinides 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 actinides produce 408 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 107 five-letter words, 118 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.