concerns needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
concerns is the highest-scoring word from concerns, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in concerns — and it is concerns itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in concerns produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: concern, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling concerns turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with soccer. For points, the strongest plays are sconce and soccer — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in concerns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cones, cores, corns, and score. For points, the strongest plays are cosec, crocs, and secco — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in concerns produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cone, cons, core, corn, none, nose, and once. For points, the strongest play is croc — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling concerns turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, nor, one, and son. For points, the strongest plays are con, cor, cos, eco, orc, rec, roc, sec, and soc — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in concerns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, ne, no, oe, on, or, os, re, and so — 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 concerns 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.
concerns 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record seven senses for concerns. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
concerns is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing concerns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is concerns, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from concerns 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 concerns produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.