alacrities needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 605 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alacrities is the highest-scoring word from alacrities, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 605 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in alacrities — and it is alacrities itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling alacrities turns up 8 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with realistic. For points, the strongest plays are clarities, eristical, racialise, racialist, realistic, satirical, and tailraces — each worth 11 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 alacrities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with articles and recitals. For points, the strongest plays are articles, ciliates, iatrical, recitals, silicate, sterical, and tailrace — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in alacrities produces 47 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with article, recital, and saltier. For points, the strongest plays are acetals, article, atresic, carates, caritas, cartels, ciliate, citrals, clarets, claries, crestal, cristae, eclairs, elastic, elicits, eristic, italics, laciest, lactase, laicise, latices, raciest, recital, relicts, satiric, scalare, scalier, scarlet, stearic, and talcier — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling alacrities turns up 114 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, altars, alters, castle, caters, cities, and clears. For points, the strongest plays are acetal, aecial, arecas, atelic, caesar, calesa, carate, carats, carets, caries, carles, cartel, cartes, casita, caster, castle, caters, ceilis, cerias, citers, cities, citral, claret, clears, cleats, craals, crates, crista, eclair, eclats, elicit, ericas, iatric, iciest, italic, lacers, lacier, lascar, racial, racist, rascal, reacts, recast, recits, rectal, relics, relict, rictal, sacral, scalar, scaler, sclera, sialic, silica, slicer, stelic, steric, ticals, traces, triacs, and trices — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 172 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alacrities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert, altar, alter, areas, cares, and carts. For points, the strongest plays are acais, acari, aceta, acres, aecia, alecs, areca, areic, carat, cares, caret, carle, carls, carse, carte, carts, caste, cater, cates, ceili, ceils, celts, ceria, certs, cesta, cesti, cilia, cires, citer, cites, clast, clear, cleat, clits, craal, crate, crest, crias, cries, crits, eclat, erica, escar, etics, icier, ileac, iliac, lacer, laces, laics, licit, races, react, recit, recta, recti, relic, rices, sacra, saice, salic, scale, scare, scart, serac, slice, taces, talcs, telic, tical, trace, triac, and trice — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in alacrities produces 158 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs, area, arts, last, late, and lets. For points, the strongest plays are acai, aces, acre, acta, acts, alec, arcs, asci, lace, lacs, laic, lice, race, recs, rice, scar, scat, sect, sice, cals, care, carl, cars, cart, casa, case, cast, cate, cats, ceil, cels, celt, cert, cire, cist, cite, clit, cria, cris, crit, etic, ices, tace, talc, tecs, and tics — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling alacrities turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, are, art, ate, car, and cat. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, cal, car, cat, cel, cis, ice, lac, rec, sac, sec, sic, tec, and tic — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alacrities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, ai, al, ar, as, at, el, er, es, et, is, it, la, li, re, si, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in alacrities plus one additional letter.
alacrities 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 alacrities. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
alacrities is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alacrities unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is alacrities, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from alacrities 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 alacrities produce 605 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 8 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 47 seven-letter words, 114 six-letter words, 172 five-letter words, 158 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.