Hidden inside curtailing sit curtailing and granulitic, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 342 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
curtailing and granulitic tie for the highest Scrabble score from curtailing at 13 points. The top 10 of 342 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in curtailing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and curtailing 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 curtailing and granulitic, 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 curtailing produces exactly one nine-letter word: articling. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in curtailing. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cingular, curating, granitic, linguica, and liturgic, 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 curtailing produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with curling and curtain. For points, the strongest plays are augitic, carling, carting, catling, cingula, crating, curling, talcing, tracing, tricing, 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 curtailing turns up 55 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting, airing, caring, curing, garlic, guitar, and luring. For points, the strongest plays are acting, arcing, caring, citing, cluing, curing, garlic, glucan, lacing, racing, ricing, and tragic — 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 71 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in curtailing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cigar, giant, grant, guilt, trail, train, and trial. For points, the strongest plays are acing, cigar, clang, cling, clung, cuing, and icing — 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 curtailing produces 100 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, cart, cult, curl, gain, girl, and liar. For points, the strongest plays are clag, crag, and guac — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling curtailing turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, ant, art, can, car, and cat. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in curtailing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — 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 curtailing plus one additional letter.
curtailing 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.
curtailing is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing curtailing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are curtailing and granulitic, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from curtailing 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 curtailing produce 342 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 10 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 55 six-letter words, 71 five-letter words, 100 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.