Hidden inside careers sit careers and creaser, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 82 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
careers and creaser tie for the highest Scrabble score from careers at 9 points. The top 10 of 82 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in careers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and careers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with careers. For points, the strongest plays are careers and creaser — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in careers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, cease and erase. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including cares, cease and races.
Rearranging the letters in careers produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cars and case. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including care, cars and case.
Unscrambling careers turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, car and ear. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including car, ace and arc.
18 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in careers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in careers and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
careers 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 three senses for careers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
careers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing careers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are careers and creaser, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from careers 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 careers produce 82 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.