Hidden inside containers sit containers and crenations, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1069 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
containers and crenations tie for the highest Scrabble score from containers at 12 points. The top 10 of 1069 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in containers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and containers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with containers. For points, the strongest plays are containers and crenations — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling containers turns up 14 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with container and reactions. For points, 12 words tie at 11 points, including container, reactions and actioners.
There are 51 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in containers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ancestor, contains and instance. For points, 36 words tie at 10 points, including ancestor, contains and instance.
Rearranging the letters in containers produces 126 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions, ancient and cartons. For points, 83 words tie at 9 points, including actions, ancient and cartons.
Unscrambling containers turns up 238 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, actors and cannot. For points, 133 words tie at 8 points, including action, actors and cannot.
There are 280 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in containers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, nicer and nines. For points, 121 words tie at 7 points, including actor, nicer and ocean.
Rearranging the letters in containers produces 224 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs and ants. For points, 72 words tie at 6 points, including acts, nice and once.
Unscrambling containers turns up 106 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and ant. For points, 23 words tie at 5 points, including act, can and car.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in containers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 28 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
5 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in containers plus one additional letter.
containers 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 containers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
containers is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing containers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are containers and crenations, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from containers 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 containers produce 1069 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 14 nine-letter words, 51 eight-letter words, 126 seven-letter words, 238 six-letter words, 280 five-letter words, 224 four-letter words, 106 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.