costume needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 118 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
costume is the highest-scoring word from costume, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 118 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in costume — and it is costume itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling costume turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are comets, comtes, custom, and mucose, 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 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in costume. If a familiar word is all you need, start with comes, mouse, and scout. For points, the strongest plays are comes, comet, and comte — 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 costume produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with come, cost, cues, cute, cuts, most, and must. For points, the strongest plays are come, cums, mocs, and scum — each 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 costume turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cut, met, out, set, sue, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are cum and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in costume. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, so, to, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mo, mu, om, and um — each worth 4 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 costume and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
costume 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 six senses for costume. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
costume is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing costume unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is costume, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from costume 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 costume produce 118 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.