Hidden inside cisternae sit centiares, cisternae, creatines and 2 others, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 662 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
centiares, cisternae, creatines and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from cisternae at 11 points. The top 10 of 662 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 nine-letter words hiding in cisternae: four come from rearranging its letters, and cisternae 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 centiares, cisternae, creatines, 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 24 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cisternae. If a familiar word is all you need, start with increase. For points, the strongest plays are canister, centares, centiare, ceratins, cineaste, cisterna, creatine, creatins, enterics, enticers, increase, increate, iterance, reascent, reenacts, sarcenet, scantier, secretin, and tacrines — 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 cisternae produces 68 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, atresic, canters, careens, carnets, carnies, caserne, centare, centers, centres, cerates, ceratin, ceresin, cerites, certain, cetanes, cineast, cistern, creates, creatin, crenate, cretins, cristae, ecartes, enteric, enticer, entices, narcist, nectars, raciest, recanes, recants, recites, reenact, scanter, sincere, stearic, tacrine, tanrecs, tenaces, tenrecs, tierces, and trances — 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 cisternae turns up 144 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caters, center, create, easier, easter, enters, and entire. For points, the strongest plays are acetin, actins, antics, ascent, cairns, caners, canter, careen, carets, caries, carnet, carnie, cartes, casein, casern, caster, caters, 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, nacres, nastic, nectar, nicest, nieces, racist, rances, reacts, recane, recant, recast, recent, recite, recits, resect, screen, seance, secant, secern, secret, seneca, stance, steric, tanrec, tenace, tenrec, terces, tierce, traces, 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 182 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cisternae. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, carts, cater, cease, cents, cries, and earns. For points, the strongest plays are acnes, acres, actin, antic, areic, 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, saice, scant, scare, scart, scena, scene, scent, scran, scree, serac, since, taces, 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 cisternae produces 142 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, 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 cisternae turns up 77 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 cisternae. 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.
15 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in cisternae plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cisternae 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.
cisternae 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.
cisternae is one of five nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cisternae unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are centiares, cisternae, creatines, iterances, and nectaries, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cisternae 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 cisternae produce 662 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 nine-letter words, 24 eight-letter words, 68 seven-letter words, 144 six-letter words, 182 five-letter words, 142 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.