Hidden inside costumers sit costumers and customers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 430 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
costumers and customers tie for the highest Scrabble score from costumers at 13 points. The top 10 of 430 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in costumers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and costumers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with customers. For points, the strongest plays are costumers and customers — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in costumers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with costumes, customer, and scrotums. For points, the strongest plays are costumer, costumes, customer, and scrotums — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in costumers produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with costume, courses and scrotum. For points, the strongest plays are costume, customs, rectums, and scrotum — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling costumers turns up 84 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with course, courts and curses. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including comers, comets and comtes.
There are 111 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in costumers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with comes, cores and costs. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including comes, scums and comer.
Rearranging the letters in costumers produces 114 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mess, more and most. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including scum, come and merc.
Unscrambling costumers turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cut and met. For points, the strongest plays are cum and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in costumers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, or and so. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including me, um and em.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in costumers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in costumers and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
costumers 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 costumers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
costumers is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing costumers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are costumers and customers, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from costumers 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 costumers produce 430 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 84 six-letter words, 111 five-letter words, 114 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.