Hidden inside adjusters sit adjusters and readjusts, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 284 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adjusters and readjusts tie for the highest Scrabble score from adjusters at 17 points. The top 10 of 284 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in adjusters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and adjusters 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 adjusters and readjusts, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adjusters. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adjuster and readjust, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in adjusters produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adjusts and assured. For points, the strongest plays are adjures, adjusts, and judases — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling adjusters turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adjust, assure, rudest, stared, stares, surest, and trades. For points, the strongest plays are adjure, adjust, and justed — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 80 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adjusters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dates, dears, dress, dusts, rates, and reads. For points, the strongest plays are jades and judas — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in adjusters produces 87 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, dare, date, dear, dust, ears, and east. For points, the strongest play is jade — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling adjusters turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, art, ass, ate, due, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are jar, jet, jeu, jus, jut, raj, and taj — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adjusters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in adjusters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in adjusters 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.
adjusters 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 one sense for adjusters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
adjusters is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing adjusters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are adjusters and readjusts, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from adjusters 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 adjusters produce 284 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 80 five-letter words, 87 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.