Hidden inside centurions sit centurions and continuers, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 772 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
centurions and continuers tie for the highest Scrabble score from centurions at 12 points. The top 10 of 772 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in centurions: one comes from rearranging its letters, and centurions itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are centurions and continuers, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling centurions turns up 10 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with continues and countries. For points, 9 words tie at 11 points, including continues, countries and centurion.
There are 29 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in centurions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with continue, counters and counties. For points, 21 words tie at 10 points, including continue, counters and counties.
Rearranging the letters in centurions produces 81 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with counter, interns and notices. For points, 47 words tie at 9 points, including counter, notices and section.
Unscrambling centurions turns up 168 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coitus, counts and course. For points, 84 words tie at 8 points, including coitus, counts and course.
There are 209 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in centurions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, coins and cones. For points, 88 words tie at 7 points, including cents, coins and cones.
Rearranging the letters in centurions produces 164 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets and nice. For points, 53 words tie at 6 points, including nice, once and rice.
Unscrambling centurions turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue and cut. For points, 20 words tie at 5 points, including con, cue and cut.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in centurions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, 24 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and it.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in centurions plus one additional letter.
centurions 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 4-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 centurions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
centurions is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing centurions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are centurions and continuers, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from centurions 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 centurions produce 772 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 10 nine-letter words, 29 eight-letter words, 81 seven-letter words, 168 six-letter words, 209 five-letter words, 164 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.