Hidden inside certified sit certified and rectified, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 167 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
certified and rectified tie for the highest Scrabble score from certified at 15 points. The top 10 of 167 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in certified: one comes from rearranging its letters, and certified 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 certified and rectified, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in certified. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is feticide, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in certified produces 9 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deficit and edifice, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling certified turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credit and direct. For points, the strongest plays are defect and deific — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in certified. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, fired, fried, tired, and tried. For points, the strongest plays are defer, drift, feted, fetid, fired, freed, fried, and refed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in certified produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dice, diet, dirt, edit, feed, and feet. For points, the strongest play is fice — 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 certified turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, fed, fee, fit, ice, red, and rid. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, and fid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in certified. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, if, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in certified plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in certified 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.
certified 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for certified. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
certified is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing certified unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are certified and rectified, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from certified 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 certified produce 167 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.