Hidden inside articles sit articles, recitals, and sterical, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 473 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
articles, recitals, and sterical tie for the highest Scrabble score from articles at 10 points. The top 10 of 473 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in articles: two come from rearranging its letters, and articles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with articles and recitals. For points, the strongest plays are articles, recitals, and sterical — 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 articles produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with article, recital, and saltier. For points, the strongest plays are article, atresic, cartels, citrals, clarets, claries, crestal, cristae, eclairs, elastic, laciest, latices, raciest, recital, relicts, 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 articles turns up 72 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, castle, caters, clears, racist, and reacts. For points, the strongest plays are atelic, carets, caries, carles, cartel, cartes, caster, castle, caters, cerias, citers, citral, claret, clears, cleats, crates, crista, eclair, eclats, ericas, lacers, lacier, racist, reacts, recast, recits, rectal, relics, relict, rictal, scaler, sclera, 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 138 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in articles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert, alter, cares, carts, cater, and clear. For points, the strongest plays are acres, alecs, areic, cares, caret, carle, carls, carse, carte, carts, caste, cater, cates, ceils, celts, ceria, certs, cesta, cesti, cires, citer, cites, clast, clear, cleat, clits, crate, crest, crias, cries, crits, eclat, erica, escar, etics, ileac, lacer, laces, laics, races, react, recit, recta, recti, relic, rices, 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 articles produces 143 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs, arts, last, late, lets, and liar. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acre, acts, alec, arcs, asci, lace, lacs, laic, lice, race, recs, rice, scar, scat, sect, sice, cals, care, carl, cars, cart, 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 articles turns up 73 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in articles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
Swap a single tile in articles 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.
articles 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 five senses for articles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
articles is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing articles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are articles, recitals, and sterical, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from articles 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 articles produce 473 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 72 six-letter words, 138 five-letter words, 143 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.