assurances 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, 266 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
assurances is the highest-scoring word from assurances, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 266 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in assurances — and it is assurances itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling assurances turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anacruses and assurance, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assurances. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are caesuras, cassenas, sucrases, and suncares, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in assurances produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assures. For points, 14 words tie at 9 points, including ancress, arcuses and caesars.
Unscrambling assurances turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anuses, assure and causes. For points, 31 words tie at 8 points, including causes, curses and sauces.
There are 71 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assurances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, asses and cares. For points, 37 words tie at 7 points, including cares, cases and cause.
Rearranging the letters in assurances produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anus, area and cans. For points, 27 words tie at 6 points, including cans, care and cars.
Unscrambling assurances turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ass and can. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including can, car and cue.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assurances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and us. For points, 14 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and us.
assurances 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.
Dictionaries record four senses for assurances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
assurances is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing assurances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is assurances, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from assurances 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 assurances produce 266 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 71 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.