Hidden inside certify sit certify and rectify, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
certify and rectify tie for the highest Scrabble score from certify at 15 points. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in certify: one comes from rearranging its letters, and certify itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are certify and rectify, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling certify produces exactly one six-letter word: ferity. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in certify. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fiery, reify, and treyf, 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 certify produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with city, fire, rice, and tire. For points, the strongest play is fyce — 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 certify turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry, fit, fry, ice, tie, try, and yet. For points, the strongest plays are fey and fry — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in certify. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if and it. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, and ye — each worth 5 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 certify and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
certify 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in certify carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for certify. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
certify is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing certify unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are certify and rectify, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from certify 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 certify produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 8 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.