Hidden inside commodities sit commodities and commoditise, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 381 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
commodities and commoditise tie for the highest Scrabble score from commodities at 18 points. The top 10 of 381 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in commodities: one comes from rearranging its letters, and commodities itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are commodities and commoditise, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling commodities produces exactly one nine-letter word: sodomitic. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in commodities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with domestic. For points, the strongest play is commodes — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in commodities produces 31 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with commits. For points, the strongest play is commode — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling commodities turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cities, commit and costed. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including commit, commie and commis.
There are 98 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in commodities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with codes, comes and dices. For points, the strongest plays are commo, comms, and mimic — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in commodities produces 101 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, come and cost. For points, the strongest play is comm — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling commodities turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot and ice. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including mom, mem and mic.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in commodities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and is. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
3 twelve-letter words can be made using all the letters in commodities plus one additional letter.
commodities 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 3-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 commodities. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
commodities is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing commodities unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are commodities and commoditise, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from commodities 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 commodities produce 381 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 13 eight-letter words, 31 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 98 five-letter words, 101 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.