artifacts needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 199 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
artifacts is the highest-scoring word from artifacts, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 199 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in artifacts — and it is artifacts itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in artifacts. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are artifact and frascati, 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 artifacts produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are astatic, astrict, and caritas, 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 artifacts turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, attics, racist, and strict. For points, the strongest plays are crafts, facias, fascia, fracas, and fracti — 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 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in artifacts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attic, carts, facts, first, scarf, stair, and start. For points, the strongest plays are craft, facia, facta, facts, farci, and scarf — 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 artifacts produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs, arts, cars, cart, cast, and cats. For points, the strongest plays are cafs, fact, and fisc — 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 artifacts turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, art, car, cat, far, and fat. For points, the strongest play is caf — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in artifacts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, if, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are fa and if — each worth 5 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 artifacts 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.
artifacts 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 1-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 artifacts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
artifacts is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing artifacts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is artifacts, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from artifacts 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 artifacts produce 199 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.