Hidden inside curtest sit curtest, cutters, and scutter, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
curtest, cutters, and scutter tie for the highest Scrabble score from curtest at 9 points. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in curtest: two come from rearranging its letters, and curtest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are curtest, cutters, and scutter, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling curtest turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cutest and truest. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including cutest, cruets and cruset.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in curtest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cures, curse, cuter, and trust. For points, 17 words tie at 7 points, including cures, curse and cuter.
Rearranging the letters in curtest produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cues, cure and cute. For points, 14 words tie at 6 points, including cues, cure and cute.
Unscrambling curtest turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cut and set. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including cue, cut and cru.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in curtest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in curtest and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
curtest 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.
curtest is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing curtest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are curtest, cutters, and scutter, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from curtest 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 curtest produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.