Hidden inside centered sit centered, decenter, and decentre, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 84 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
centered, decenter, and decentre tie for the highest Scrabble score from centered at 11 points. The top 10 of 84 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in centered: two come from rearranging its letters, and centered 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 centered, decenter, and decentre, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in centered produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entered. For points, the strongest plays are centred, credent, and erected — 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 centered turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, decent, recent, and rented. For points, the strongest plays are decent, decern, decree, and recede — 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in centered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter. For points, the strongest plays are ceder, cered, and creed — 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 centered produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, deer, need, nerd, rent, teen, and tend. For points, the strongest plays are cede and cred — 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 centered turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, net, red, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are cee, rec, and tec — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in centered. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, 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 centered 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.
centered 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 centered. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
centered is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing centered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are centered, decenter, and decentre, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from centered 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 centered produce 84 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.