Hidden inside constrains sit constrains and transsonic, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 533 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
constrains and transsonic tie for the highest Scrabble score from constrains at 12 points. The top 10 of 533 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in constrains: one comes from rearranging its letters, and constrains 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 constrains and transsonic, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling constrains turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are canonists, constrain, croissant and 2 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in constrains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contains. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including contains, actinons and canonist.
Rearranging the letters in constrains produces 46 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions, cartons and casinos. For points, 30 words tie at 9 points, including actions, cartons and casinos.
Unscrambling constrains turns up 99 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with across, action and actors. For points, 58 words tie at 8 points, including across, action and actors.
There are 147 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in constrains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, carts and casts. For points, 64 words tie at 7 points, including actor, carts and casts.
Rearranging the letters in constrains produces 133 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs and ants. For points, 47 words tie at 6 points, including acts, cans and cars.
Unscrambling constrains turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and ant. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including act, can and car.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in constrains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 19 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in constrains plus one additional letter.
constrains 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 three senses for constrains. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
constrains is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing constrains unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are constrains and transsonic, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from constrains 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 constrains produce 533 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 14 eight-letter words, 46 seven-letter words, 99 six-letter words, 147 five-letter words, 133 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.