Hidden inside competitor sit competitor and optometric, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 287 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
competitor and optometric tie for the highest Scrabble score from competitor at 16 points. The top 10 of 287 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in competitor: one comes from rearranging its letters, and competitor itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are competitor and optometric, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling competitor produces exactly one nine-letter word: proteomic. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in competitor produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with promote and protect. For points, the strongest plays are comport, compote, meropic, and metopic — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling competitor turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copier, erotic, and permit. For points, the strongest play is coempt — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in competitor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crime, motor, price, prime, tempt, topic, and troop. For points, the strongest plays are compo, compt, and crimp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in competitor produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with come, core, epic, item, mice, more, and poem. For points, the strongest play is comp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling competitor turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, ice, met, moo, mop, per, and pet. For points, the strongest plays are cep, cop, imp, mic, moc, mop, pec, pic, and pom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in competitor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with it, me, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, om, op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in competitor plus one additional letter.
competitor 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 competitor. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
competitor is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing competitor unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are competitor and optometric, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from competitor 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 competitor produce 287 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 14 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.