Hidden inside certainest sit certainest and intercaste, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 842 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
certainest and intercaste tie for the highest Scrabble score from certainest at 12 points. The top 10 of 842 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in certainest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and certainest 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 certainest and intercaste, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling certainest turns up 9 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are catteries, centiares, cisternae, creatines, interacts, intersect, iterances, and nectaries, 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 54 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in certainest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with increase and interest. For points, the strongest plays are canister, centares, centiare, centrist, ceratins, cineaste, cisterna, citrates, citterns, creatine, creatins, cristate, entastic, enterics, enticers, increase, increate, interact, iterance, nictates, reascent, reenacts, reticent, sarcenet, scantier, scattier, secretin, tacrines, tetanics, and transect — 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 certainest produces 117 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with centers, certain, creates, eastern, entries, nastier, and nearest. For points, the strongest plays are acetins, arcsine, arsenic, astrict, atresic, atretic, canters, careens, carnets, carnies, caserne, casette, cattier, catties, centare, centers, centres, cerates, ceratin, ceresin, cerites, certain, cetanes, cineast, cistern, citrate, cittern, creates, creatin, crenate, cretins, cristae, ecartes, enteric, enticer, entices, narcist, nectars, nictate, raciest, recanes, recants, recites, reenact, scanter, scatter, sincere, statice, stearic, tacrine, tanrecs, tantric, tenaces, tenrecs, tercets, tetanic, tierces, trances, and trisect — 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 certainest turns up 188 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, attics, caters, center, create, easier, and easter. For points, the strongest plays are acetin, actins, antics, ascent, attics, cairns, caners, canter, careen, carets, caries, carnet, carnie, cartes, casein, casern, caster, caters, cattie, censer, centai, centas, center, centra, centre, cerate, cerias, cerise, cerite, certes, cetane, citers, cranes, crates, crease, create, cretin, crista, ecarte, enacts, enatic, encase, entice, erects, ericas, incase, incest, insect, intact, nacres, nastic, nectar, nicest, nieces, racist, rances, reacts, recane, recant, recast, recent, recite, recits, resect, screen, seance, secant, secern, secret, seneca, stacte, stance, static, steric, strict, tanrec, tenace, tenrec, terces, tercet, tierce, tincts, traces, tracts, trance, triacs, and trices — 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 214 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in certainest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saint, saner, scare, scene, scent, since, and siren. For points, the strongest plays are saice, scant, scare, scart, scatt, scena, scene, scent, scran, scree, serac, since, taces, tacet, tacit, tacts, tecta, terce, acnes, acres, actin, antic, areic, attic, cains, cairn, caner, canes, canst, cants, cares, caret, carns, carse, carte, carts, caste, cater, cates, cease, cense, cents, ceres, ceria, certs, cesta, cesti, cetes, cines, cires, citer, cites, crane, crate, crest, crias, cries, crits, enact, erect, erica, escar, etics, nacre, narcs, naric, nicer, niece, races, rance, react, recit, recta, recti, rices, tinct, trace, tract, 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 certainest produces 157 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs, ants, arts, cans, care, and cars. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acne, acre, acts, arcs, asci, cain, cane, cans, cant, care, carn, cars, cart, case, cast, cate, cats, cees, cent, cere, cert, cete, cine, cire, cist, cite, cria, cris, crit, etic, ices, narc, nice, race, recs, rice, scan, scar, scat, sect, sice, tace, tact, tecs, and tics — 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 certainest turns up 81 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, cis, ice, rec, sac, sec, sic, 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in certainest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, an, ar, as, at, en, er, es, et, in, is, it, na, ne, re, si, 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.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in certainest plus one additional letter.
certainest 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.
certainest is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing certainest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are certainest and intercaste, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from certainest 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 certainest produce 842 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 9 nine-letter words, 54 eight-letter words, 117 seven-letter words, 188 six-letter words, 214 five-letter words, 157 four-letter words, 81 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.