Hidden inside coarsest sit coarsest and coasters, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 365 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
coarsest and coasters tie for the highest Scrabble score from coarsest at 10 points. The top 10 of 365 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in coarsest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and coarsest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coasters. For points, the strongest plays are coarsest and coasters — 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 coarsest produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actress, coaster, and sectors. For points, the strongest plays are actress, casters, castors, coaster, coaters, corsets, costars, costers, escorts, recasts, recoats, rosaces, scoters, and sectors — 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 coarsest turns up 63 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with across, actors, caters, coasts, reacts, roasts, and scares. For points, the strongest plays are across, actors, ascots, caress, carets, carses, cartes, caster, castes, castor, caters, cestas, cestos, coarse, coasts, coater, corses, corset, cosets, cosset, costae, costar, coster, crases, crates, crests, crosse, escars, escort, escots, ocreas, oscars, reacts, recast, recoat, rectos, rosace, scares, scarts, scores, scoter, scrota, sector, seracs, tarocs, and traces — 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 103 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coarsest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, cares, carts, cases, casts, cater, and coast. For points, the strongest plays are acres, acros, actor, ascot, cares, caret, carse, carte, carts, cases, caste, casts, cater, cates, ceros, certs, cesta, coast, coats, cores, corse, coses, coset, costa, costs, cotes, crass, crate, cress, crest, cross, escar, escot, ocrea, orcas, oscar, races, react, recta, recto, scare, scars, scart, scats, score, scots, sects, serac, socas, soces, taces, tacos, taroc, torcs, and trace — 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 coarsest produces 106 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arts, care, cars, cart, case, and cast. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acre, acro, acts, arco, arcs, care, cars, cart, case, cast, cate, cats, cero, cert, cess, coat, core, cors, coss, cost, cote, cots, ecos, ocas, orca, orcs, race, recs, rocs, sacs, scar, scat, scot, secs, sect, soca, tace, taco, tecs, and torc — 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 coarsest turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are, art, ass, ate, car, and cat. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, car, cat, cor, cos, cot, eco, oca, orc, rec, roc, sac, sec, soc, and tec — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coarsest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, at, er, es, et, oe, or, os, re, so, ta, te, and to — each worth 2 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 coarsest 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.
coarsest 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
coarsest is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing coarsest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are coarsest and coasters, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from coarsest 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 coarsest produce 365 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 63 six-letter words, 103 five-letter words, 106 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.