confirms needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 146 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
confirms is the highest-scoring word from confirms, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 146 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in confirms — and it is confirms itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in confirms produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with confirm and informs. For points, the strongest play is confirm — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confirms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, corns and firms. For points, the strongest plays are coifs, firms, and forms — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in confirms produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cons and corn. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including firm, foci and form.
Unscrambling confirms turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, for and nor. For points, the strongest plays are mic and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confirms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are if and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in confirms plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in confirms 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.
confirms 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 five senses for confirms. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
confirms is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing confirms unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is confirms, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from confirms 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 confirms produce 146 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.