Hidden inside countering sit countering and recounting, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 437 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
countering and recounting tie for the highest Scrabble score from countering at 13 points. The top 10 of 437 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in countering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and countering 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 countering and recounting, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling countering 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 congruent and trouncing, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in countering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with continue and counting. For points, the strongest plays are centring, counting, courting, encoring, eructing, and gerontic — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in countering produces 34 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with counter, renting, reunion, routine, turning, and unicorn. For points, the strongest plays are coreign, corning, ergotic, and trucing — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling countering turns up 77 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with curing, erotic, ignore, intern, notice, region, and tongue. For points, the strongest plays are cering, cogent, coigne, conger, coning, coring, coting, cringe, cueing, and curing — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 105 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in countering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with count, court, cuter, cutie, groin, inner, and nicer. For points, the strongest plays are coign, conge, corgi, cuing, genic, incog, and orgic — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in countering produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin, cone, core, corn, cure, and cute. For points, the strongest plays are cent, cero, cert, cine, cion, cire, cite, coin, coir, cone, coni, conn, core, corn, cote, crit, cure, curn, curt, cute, ecru, etic, icon, nice, once, otic, rice, torc, unci, unco, and uric — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling countering turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue, cut, ego, get, got, and gun. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in countering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, it, no, on, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in countering plus one additional letter.
countering 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
countering is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing countering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are countering and recounting, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from countering 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 countering produce 437 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 17 eight-letter words, 34 seven-letter words, 77 six-letter words, 105 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.