criterion needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 177 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
criterion is the highest-scoring word from criterion, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 177 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in criterion — and it is criterion itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in criterion. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is tricorne, 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 criterion produces 11 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are citrine, cointer, cornier, crinite, inciter, neritic, noritic, noticer, oneiric, and tricorn, 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 criterion turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corner, erotic, ironic, notice, and tinier. For points, the strongest plays are citrin, citron, coiner, corner, cornet, corrie, cortin, cretin, erotic, incite, irenic, ironic, nitric, noetic, notice, orcein, orrice, recoin, rector, and retcon — 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 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in criterion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nicer. For points, the strongest plays are cento, cirri, citer, conte, corer, crier, crone, crore, icier, ionic, nicer, oncet, ontic, orcin, recit, recon, recti, recto, ricer, ricin, tonic, toric, and trice — 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 criterion produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin, cone, core, corn, into, and iron. For points, the strongest plays are cent, cero, cert, cine, cion, cire, cite, coin, coir, cone, coni, core, corn, cote, crit, etic, icon, nice, once, otic, rice, and torc — 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 criterion turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice, net, nor, not, one, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are con, cor, cot, eco, ice, orc, rec, roc, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in criterion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, no, on, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, et, in, it, ne, no, oe, oi, on, or, re, te, ti, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in criterion plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in criterion 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.
criterion 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 two senses for criterion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
criterion is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing criterion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is criterion, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from criterion 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 criterion produce 177 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.