criterions 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, 500 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
criterions is the highest-scoring word from criterions, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 500 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in criterions — and it is criterions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling criterions turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are corneitis, criterion, and tricornes, 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 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in criterions. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are citrines, cointers, corniest, crinites, crostini, inciters, noticers, recision, resorcin, soricine, tricorne, and tricorns, 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 criterions produces 57 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corners, ironies, notices, and section. For points, the strongest plays are cirrose, cistern, cistron, citrine, citrins, citrons, coiners, cointer, corners, cornets, cornier, corries, cortins, cretins, cretons, crinite, cronies, crosier, eosinic, eristic, erotics, incisor, inciter, incites, irenics, neritic, nicoise, noritic, noticer, notices, oneiric, orceins, orrices, recoins, rectors, retcons, scorner, section, sericin, soritic, 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 criterions turns up 103 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cities, corner, erotic, ironic, nicest, notice, and sector. For points, the strongest plays are censor, centos, cestoi, citers, cities, citrin, citron, coiner, conies, contes, corers, corner, cornet, corrie, corset, cortin, cosier, cosine, coster, cretin, criers, crones, crores, erotic, escort, iciest, icones, incest, incise, incite, insect, ionics, irenic, ironic, nicest, nitric, noetic, notice, orcein, orcins, orrice, oscine, recits, recoin, recons, rector, rectos, retcon, ricers, ricins, scorer, scoter, sector, steric, tocsin, tonics, torics, and trices — 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 130 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in criterions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, coins, cones, cores, corns, cries, and irons. For points, the strongest plays are cento, cents, ceros, certs, cesti, cines, cions, cires, cirri, citer, cites, coins, coirs, cones, conte, corer, cores, corns, corse, coset, cosie, cotes, crest, crier, cries, crits, crone, crore, escot, etics, icier, icons, ionic, nicer, oncet, ontic, orcin, recit, recon, recti, recto, ricer, rices, ricin, scent, scion, scone, score, scorn, since, sonic, stoic, tonic, torcs, 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 criterions produces 109 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin, cone, cons, core, corn, and cost. For points, the strongest plays are cent, cero, cert, cine, cion, cire, cist, cite, coin, coir, cone, coni, cons, core, corn, cors, cost, cote, cots, cris, crit, ecos, etic, ices, icon, nice, once, orcs, otic, recs, rice, rocs, scot, sect, sice, tecs, tics, 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 criterions turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice, its, net, nor, not, and one. For points, the strongest plays are cis, con, cor, cos, cot, eco, 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in criterions. 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, oe, oi, on, or, os, re, si, so, 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 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in criterions plus one additional letter.
criterions 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 criterions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
criterions is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing criterions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is criterions, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from criterions 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 criterions produce 500 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 57 seven-letter words, 103 six-letter words, 130 five-letter words, 109 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.