communist needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 221 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
communist is the highest-scoring word from communist, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 221 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in communist — and it is communist itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling communist produces exactly one eight-letter word: miscount. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in communist produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with commits. For points, the strongest plays are commits and cummins — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling communist turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coitus, commit and counts. For points, the strongest plays are commis, commit, and cummin — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in communist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, count and mints. For points, the strongest play is comms — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in communist produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cons and cost. For points, the strongest play is comm — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling communist turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cut and its. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including mom, cum and mic.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in communist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in communist plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in communist 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.
communist 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for communist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
communist is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing communist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is communist, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from communist 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 communist produce 221 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.