courtesies needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 574 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
courtesies is the highest-scoring word from courtesies, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 574 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in courtesies — and it is courtesies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling courtesies 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 cerusites, cerussite, curtesies and 2 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in courtesies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with securest. For points, 16 words tie at 10 points, including securest, cerusite and citreous.
Rearranging the letters in courtesies produces 61 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with courses, cruises and rescues. For points, 37 words tie at 9 points, including courses, cruises and rescues.
Unscrambling courtesies turns up 142 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coitus, course and courts. For points, 81 words tie at 8 points, including coitus, course and courts.
There are 145 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in courtesies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, costs and court. For points, 66 words tie at 7 points, including cores, costs and court.
Rearranging the letters in courtesies produces 122 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, cost and cues. For points, 46 words tie at 6 points, including core, cost and cues.
Unscrambling courtesies turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cut and ice. For points, 20 words tie at 5 points, including cue, cut and ice.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in courtesies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it and or. For points, 17 words tie at 2 points, including is, it and or.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in courtesies plus one additional letter.
courtesies 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for courtesies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
courtesies is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing courtesies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is courtesies, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from courtesies 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 courtesies produce 574 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 nine-letter words, 17 eight-letter words, 61 seven-letter words, 142 six-letter words, 145 five-letter words, 122 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.