Hidden inside anticrime sit anticrime, antimeric, and criminate, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 335 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
anticrime, antimeric, and criminate tie for the highest Scrabble score from anticrime at 13 points. The top 10 of 335 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in anticrime: two come from rearranging its letters, and anticrime 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 anticrime, antimeric, and criminate, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in anticrime produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with certain and martini. For points, the strongest plays are carmine, ceriman, cremini, crimine, mantric, mincier, minicar, and nematic — 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 anticrime turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with remain and tinier. For points, the strongest plays are aminic, anemic, carmen, cinema, iceman, mantic, matric, metica, metric, and mincer — 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 79 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in anticrime. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cater, cream, crime, meant, nicer, react, and train. For points, the strongest plays are amice, amici, amnic, cream, crime, macer, manic, micra, and mince — each 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 anticrime produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, came, care, cart, cent, cram, and earn. For points, the strongest plays are acme, came, cami, cram, emic, mace, marc, merc, mica, and mice — each 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 anticrime turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aim, air, ant, are, arm, and art. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in anticrime. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, in, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in anticrime plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in anticrime 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.
anticrime 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.
anticrime is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing anticrime unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are anticrime, antimeric, and criminate, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from anticrime 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 anticrime produce 335 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 79 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.