curtseying needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 576 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
curtseying is the highest-scoring word from curtseying, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 576 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in curtseying — and it is curtseying itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling curtseying produces exactly one nine-letter word: curtsying. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in curtseying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rescuing and security. For points, the strongest plays are synergic and turgency — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in curtseying produces 38 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with century, cursing, and resting. For points, the strongest plays are cringey, cygnets, scrying, and urgency — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling curtseying turns up 106 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cruise, crying and curing. For points, the strongest plays are cringy, crying, and cygnet — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 157 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in curtseying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, cries and cures. For points, the strongest plays are cutey and yince — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in curtseying produces 155 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, city and cues. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including city, cyst and scry.
Unscrambling curtseying turns up 89 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry, cue and cut. For points, the strongest plays are cry and icy — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in curtseying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest play is ye — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in curtseying plus one additional letter.
curtseying 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
curtseying is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing curtseying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is curtseying, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from curtseying 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 curtseying produce 576 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 11 eight-letter words, 38 seven-letter words, 106 six-letter words, 157 five-letter words, 155 four-letter words, 89 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.