Hidden inside countries sit countries, cretinous, and neurotics, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 648 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
countries, cretinous, and neurotics tie for the highest Scrabble score from countries at 11 points. The top 10 of 648 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in countries: two come from rearranging its letters, and countries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with countries. For points, the strongest plays are countries, cretinous, and neurotics — each worth 11 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 countries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with counters, counties, and routines. For points, the strongest plays are citreous, coinsure, cointers, construe, corniest, counters, counties, insource, neurotic, noticers, outcries, recounts, ructions, trounces, and unerotic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in countries produces 50 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with counter, notices, routine, and section. For points, the strongest plays are cistern, cistron, citrons, citrous, coenuri, coiners, cointer, contuse, conures, cornets, cornute, cortins, counter, couters, cretins, cretons, cronies, croutes, curites, encrust, erotics, icterus, incrust, neustic, noticer, notices, orceins, ouncers, recoins, recount, retcons, ruction, scouter, section, suction, and trounce — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling countries turns up 128 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coitus, counts, course, courts, cousin, cruise, and cuties. For points, the strongest plays are censor, centos, cerous, cestoi, citers, citron, citrus, coiner, coitus, conies, contes, conure, cornet, cornus, corset, cortin, cosier, cosine, coster, counts, course, courts, cousin, couter, cretin, crones, crouse, croute, cruets, cruise, cruset, cueist, cunits, curets, curies, curios, curite, cuties, cutins, erotic, eructs, escort, icones, incest, incurs, incuse, insect, nicest, noetic, notice, orcein, orcins, oscine, ouncer, ounces, recits, recoin, recons, rectos, rectus, recuts, retcon, rictus, rustic, scoter, sector, source, steric, tocsin, tonics, torics, trices, truces, tunics, and uretic — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 188 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in countries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, coins, cones, cores, corns, count, and court. For points, the strongest plays are cento, cents, centu, ceros, certs, cesti, cines, cions, cires, citer, cites, coins, coirs, cones, conte, conus, cores, corns, cornu, corse, coset, cosie, cotes, count, court, crest, cries, crits, crone, cruet, cruse, crust, cunit, cures, curet, curie, curio, curns, curse, curst, cuter, cutes, cutie, cutin, cutis, ecrus, eruct, escot, etics, icons, ictus, incur, incus, nicer, oncet, ontic, orcin, ounce, recit, recon, recti, recto, recut, rices, runic, scent, scion, scone, score, scorn, scour, scout, scute, since, sonic, stoic, sucre, tonic, torcs, toric, trice, truce, tunic, uncos, and ureic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in countries produces 155 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, nice, nose, note, nuts, and once. For points, the strongest plays are nice, once, orcs, otic, recs, rice, rocs, scot, scut, sect, sice, cent, cero, cert, cine, cion, cire, cist, cite, coin, coir, cone, coni, cons, core, corn, cors, cost, cote, cots, cris, crit, crus, cues, cure, curn, curs, curt, cute, cuts, ecos, ecru, ecus, etic, ices, icon, tecs, tics, 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 countries turns up 83 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue, cut, ice, its, net, and nor. For points, the strongest plays are cis, con, cor, cos, cot, cru, cue, cur, cut, eco, ecu, ice, orc, rec, roc, sec, sic, soc, tec, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in countries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, et, in, is, it, ne, no, nu, oe, oi, on, or, os, re, si, so, te, ti, to, un, us, and ut — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
13 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in countries plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in countries 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.
countries 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 five senses for countries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
countries is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing countries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are countries, cretinous, and neurotics, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from countries 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 countries produce 648 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 17 eight-letter words, 50 seven-letter words, 128 six-letter words, 188 five-letter words, 155 four-letter words, 83 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.