Hidden inside coarsening sit coarsening and ignorances, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 751 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
coarsening and ignorances tie for the highest Scrabble score from coarsening at 13 points. The top 10 of 751 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in coarsening: one comes from rearranging its letters, and coarsening 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 coarsening and ignorances, 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 coarsening 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 canoeings, censoring, consigner, crannoges, ignorance, necrosing, and reconsign, 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 26 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coarsening. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scenario. For points, the strongest plays are acrogens, canoeing, coinages, coreigns, cosigner, crannoge, crannogs, creasing, encasing, encoring, organics, recaning, and scorning — 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 coarsening produces 87 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ceasing, earning, erasing, ignores, insaner, oranges, and regions. For points, the strongest plays are acrogen, anergic, arcings, canings, cargoes, carings, ceasing, censing, cognise, coignes, coinage, congers, consign, coreign, corning, corsage, craning, crannog, cringes, garcons, incages, organic, racings, sacring, scaring, scoring, and socager — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling coarsening turns up 151 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angers, caring, casino, cigars, easing, graces, and groins. For points, the strongest plays are agonic, arcing, cagers, cagier, caning, cargos, caring, casing, cering, cigars, coigne, coigns, congas, conger, conges, coning, corgis, coring, cosign, cringe, garcon, gascon, graces, incage, incogs, orgiac, racing, and socage — 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 182 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coarsening. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, cages, cares, cigar, coins, cones, and cores. For points, the strongest plays are acing, cager, cages, cargo, cigar, coign, conga, conge, corgi, crags, genic, grace, incog, orgic, and scrag — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in coarsening produces 175 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, cage, cans, care, cars, and case. For points, the strongest plays are cage, cigs, cogs, crag, and scag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling coarsening turns up 95 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, air, are, can, car, and con. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coarsening. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, go, in, is, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in coarsening plus one additional letter.
coarsening 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
coarsening is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing coarsening unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are coarsening and ignorances, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from coarsening 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 coarsening produce 751 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 9 nine-letter words, 26 eight-letter words, 87 seven-letter words, 151 six-letter words, 182 five-letter words, 175 four-letter words, 95 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.