Hidden inside canaries sit acarines, canaries, cesarian and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 226 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
acarines, canaries, cesarian and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from canaries at 10 points. The top 10 of 226 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in canaries: three come from rearranging its letters, and canaries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are acarines, canaries, cesarian, and sarcinae, 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 canaries produces 9 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 acarine, acrasin, arcsine, arnicas, arsenic, carinae, carinas, carnies, and sarcina, 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 canaries turns up 25 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are acinar, arcane, arecas, arnica, caesar, cairns, caners, caries, carina, carnie, casein, casern, cerias, cranes, crania, ericas, incase, nacres, and rances, 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 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in canaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, cares, cries, earns, nicer, races, and rains. For points, the strongest plays are acais, acari, acnes, acres, aecia, areca, areic, cains, cairn, caner, canes, cares, carns, carse, ceria, cines, cires, crane, crias, cries, erica, escar, nacre, narcs, naric, nicer, races, rance, rices, sacra, saice, scare, scena, scran, serac, and since — 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 canaries produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, area, cans, care, cars, case, and earn. For points, the strongest plays are acai, aces, acne, acre, arcs, asci, cain, cane, cans, care, carn, cars, casa, case, cine, cire, cria, cris, ices, narc, nice, race, recs, rice, scan, scar, and sice — 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 canaries turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, can, car, ear, era, and ice. For points, the strongest plays are ace, arc, can, car, cis, ice, rec, sac, sec, and sic — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in canaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, ai, an, ar, as, en, er, es, in, is, na, ne, re, and si — 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 canaries 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.
canaries 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 one sense for canaries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
canaries is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing canaries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are acarines, canaries, cesarian, and sarcinae, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from canaries 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 canaries produce 226 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.