Hidden inside antiques sit antiques and quantise, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 211 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antiques and quantise tie for the highest Scrabble score from antiques at 17 points. The top 10 of 211 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in antiques: one comes from rearranging its letters, and antiques itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with antiques. For points, the strongest plays are antiques and quantise — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in antiques produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with antique. For points, the strongest plays are antique, asquint, inquest, quinate, quintas, and quintes — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling antiques turns up 18 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are quaint, quants, queans, quiets, quinta, quinte, quints, sequin, and squint, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antiques. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, quest, quiet, quite, quits, saint, and stain. For points, the strongest plays are quais, quant, quasi, quate, quean, quest, quiet, quins, quint, quite, quits, and squat — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in antiques produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus, aunt, east, eats, neat, and nest. For points, the strongest plays are qats, quai, quin, and quit — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling antiques turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, eat, its, net, nut, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are qat, qis, qua, and suq — 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antiques. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest play is qi — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in antiques and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
antiques 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 seven senses for antiques. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
antiques is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing antiques unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antiques and quantise, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from antiques 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 antiques produce 211 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.