Hidden inside ceasing sit ceasing and incages, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ceasing and incages tie for the highest Scrabble score from ceasing at 10 points. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in ceasing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ceasing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ceasing. For points, the strongest plays are ceasing and incages — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ceasing turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easing. For points, the strongest plays are casing and incage — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ceasing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cages, gains, and since. For points, the strongest plays are acing, cages, and genic — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ceasing produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, cage, cans, case, gain, ices, and nags. For points, the strongest plays are cage, cigs, and scag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ceasing turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, can, gas, ice, nag, sea, and sin. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ceasing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 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 ceasing 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.
ceasing 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.
ceasing is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ceasing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ceasing and incages, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ceasing 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 ceasing produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.