communists needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 297 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
communists is the highest-scoring word from communists, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 297 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in communists — and it is communists itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling communists turns up 2 nine-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: communist, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in communists. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is miscount, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in communists produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with commits, cousins, sitcoms, and summons. For points, the strongest plays are commits, cosmism, and cummins — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling communists turns up 42 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 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in communists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, costs and count. For points, the strongest play is comms — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in communists produces 82 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 communists turns up 60 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 communists. 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.
communists 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 communists. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
communists is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing communists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is communists, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from communists 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 communists produce 297 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.