Hidden inside cerussite sit cerusites, cerussite, curtesies and 1 other, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 331 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cerusites, cerussite, curtesies and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from cerussite at 11 points. The top 10 of 331 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 nine-letter words hiding in cerussite: three come from rearranging its letters, and cerussite 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 cerusites, cerussite, curtesies, and icteruses, 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 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cerussite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with securest. For points, the strongest plays are cerusite, citruses, curtsies, cutesier, eucrites, rictuses, and securest — 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 cerussite produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cruises, rescues, and secrets. For points, the strongest plays are cerises, cerites, ceruses, cresset, cruises, crusets, cueists, curites, cutesie, cutises, eucrite, icterus, ictuses, recites, recuses, rescues, resects, rustics, secrets, secures, and tierces — 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 cerussite turns up 76 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crises, cruise, curses, cuties, recess, rescue, and resist. For points, the strongest plays are cereus, cerise, cerite, certes, ceruse, cestus, cistus, citers, citrus, crests, crises, cruets, cruise, cruses, cruset, crusts, cueist, cuisse, curets, curies, curite, curses, cusser, cuties, ecesis, erects, eructs, recess, recite, recits, rectus, recuse, recuts, rescue, resect, rictus, rustic, screes, scries, scutes, secret, secure, steric, sucres, terces, tierce, trices, truces, and uretic — 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 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cerussite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, cures, curse, cuter, cutie, issue, and rests. For points, the strongest plays are ceres, certs, cesti, cetes, cires, cists, citer, cites, cress, crest, cries, crits, cruet, cruse, crust, cures, curet, curie, curse, curst, cuter, cutes, cutie, cutis, ecrus, erect, eruct, etics, ictus, recit, recti, recut, rices, scree, scute, scuts, sects, sices, sucre, terce, trice, truce, and ureic — 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 cerussite produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cues, cure, cute, cuts, ices, rest, and rice. For points, the strongest plays are cees, cere, cert, cess, cete, cire, cist, cite, cris, crit, crus, cues, cure, curs, curt, cuss, cute, cuts, ecru, ecus, etic, ices, recs, rice, scut, secs, sect, sice, sics, tecs, tics, and uric — 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 cerussite turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cut, ice, its, see, set, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are cee, cis, cru, cue, cur, cut, ecu, ice, rec, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cerussite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, and us. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, et, is, it, re, si, te, ti, us, and ut — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
7 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in cerussite plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cerussite 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.
cerussite 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for cerussite. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
cerussite is one of four nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cerussite unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cerusites, cerussite, curtesies, and icteruses, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cerussite 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 cerussite produce 331 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 76 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.