Hidden inside actualises sit actualises and casualties, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 455 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
actualises and casualties tie for the highest Scrabble score from actualises at 12 points. The top 10 of 455 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in actualises: one comes from rearranging its letters, and actualises itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are actualises and casualties, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling actualises produces exactly one nine-letter word: actualise. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in actualises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with suitcase. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including suitcase, cutlases and elastics.
Rearranging the letters in actualises produces 31 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with castles. For points, 24 words tie at 9 points, including castles, acetals and ascites.
Unscrambling actualises turns up 70 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actual, aisles and castle. For points, 40 words tie at 8 points, including actual, castle and casual.
There are 127 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in actualises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, cases and casts. For points, 55 words tie at 7 points, including cases, casts and cause.
Rearranging the letters in actualises produces 129 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, case and cast. For points, 45 words tie at 6 points, including acts, case and cast.
Unscrambling actualises turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ass and ate. For points, 16 words tie at 5 points, including act, cat and cue.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in actualises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and is. For points, 19 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and is.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in actualises plus one additional letter.
actualises is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record two senses for actualises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
actualises is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing actualises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are actualises and casualties, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from actualises 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 actualises produce 455 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 31 seven-letter words, 70 six-letter words, 127 five-letter words, 129 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.