Hidden inside coarsens sit coarsens and narcoses, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 274 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
coarsens and narcoses tie for the highest Scrabble score from coarsens at 10 points. The top 10 of 274 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in coarsens: one comes from rearranging its letters, and coarsens itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coarsens and narcoses, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in coarsens produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reasons. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including ancress, canoers and caserns.
Unscrambling coarsens turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with across, oceans and reason. For points, 35 words tie at 8 points, including across, oceans and scares.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coarsens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, cases and cones. For points, 47 words tie at 7 points, including cares, cases and cones.
Rearranging the letters in coarsens produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cans, care and cars. For points, 34 words tie at 6 points, including cans, care and cars.
Unscrambling coarsens turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ass and can. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including can, car and con.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coarsens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and no. For points, 16 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and no.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in coarsens plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in coarsens and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
coarsens 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 two senses for coarsens. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
coarsens is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing coarsens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are coarsens and narcoses, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from coarsens 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 coarsens produce 274 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.