Hidden inside certainer sit certainer and interrace, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 279 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
certainer and interrace tie for the highest Scrabble score from certainer at 11 points. The top 10 of 279 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in certainer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and certainer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are certainer and interrace, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in certainer. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are centiare, creatine, increate, iterance, recanter, and recreant, 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 certainer produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caterer, certain, and trainer. For points, the strongest plays are caterer, centare, ceratin, certain, cirrate, creatin, crenate, enteric, enticer, erratic, reciter, recrate, reenact, retrace, tacrine, and terrace — 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 certainer turns up 56 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with career, center, create, entire, nearer, neater, and recent. For points, the strongest plays are acetin, canter, careen, career, carnet, carnie, carter, centai, center, centra, centre, cerate, cerite, cetane, crater, create, cretin, ecarte, enatic, entice, nectar, racier, recane, recant, recent, recite, tanrec, tenace, tenrec, tierce, tracer, and trance — 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 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in certainer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cater, eaten, enter, nicer, niece, react, and train. For points, the strongest plays are actin, antic, areic, cairn, caner, carer, caret, carte, cater, ceria, citer, crane, crate, crier, enact, erect, erica, nacre, naric, nicer, niece, racer, rance, react, recit, recta, recti, ricer, terce, trace, triac, and trice — 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 certainer produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cart, cent, earn, near, neat, and nice. For points, the strongest plays are acne, acre, cain, cane, cant, care, carn, carr, cart, cate, cent, cere, cert, cete, cine, cire, cite, cria, crit, etic, narc, nice, race, rice, and tace — 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 certainer turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, ant, are, art, ate, and can. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, can, car, cat, cee, ice, rec, tec, and tic — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in certainer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, an, ar, at, en, er, et, in, it, na, ne, re, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in certainer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in certainer and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
certainer 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.
certainer is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing certainer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are certainer and interrace, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from certainer 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 certainer produce 279 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 56 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.