Hidden inside curtsies sit citruses, curtsies, and rictuses, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 236 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
citruses, curtsies, and rictuses tie for the highest Scrabble score from curtsies at 10 points. The top 10 of 236 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in curtsies: two come from rearranging its letters, and curtsies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are citruses, curtsies, and rictuses, 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 curtsies produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cruises. For points, the strongest plays are cruises, crusets, cueists, curites, cutises, icterus, ictuses, and rustics — 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 curtsies turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crises, cruise, curses, cuties, resist, sister, and suites. For points, the strongest plays are cestus, cistus, citers, citrus, crests, crises, cruets, cruise, cruses, cruset, crusts, cueist, cuisse, curets, curies, curite, curses, cusser, cuties, eructs, recits, rectus, recuts, rictus, rustic, scries, scutes, steric, sucres, trices, truces, and uretic — 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 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in curtsies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, cures, curse, cuter, cutie, issue, and rests. For points, the strongest plays are certs, cesti, cires, cists, citer, cites, cress, crest, cries, crits, cruet, cruse, crust, cures, curet, curie, curse, curst, cuter, cutes, cutie, cutis, ecrus, eruct, etics, ictus, recit, recti, recut, rices, scute, scuts, sects, sices, sucre, trice, truce, and ureic — 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 curtsies produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cues, cure, cute, cuts, ices, rest, and rice. For points, the strongest plays are cert, cess, cire, cist, cite, cris, crit, crus, cues, cure, curs, curt, cuss, cute, cuts, ecru, ecus, etic, ices, recs, rice, scut, secs, sect, sice, sics, tecs, tics, and uric — 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 curtsies turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cut, ice, its, set, sir, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are cis, cru, cue, cur, cut, ecu, ice, rec, sec, sic, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in curtsies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, and us. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, et, is, it, re, si, te, ti, us, and ut — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in curtsies and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
curtsies 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 three senses for curtsies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
curtsies is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing curtsies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are citruses, curtsies, and rictuses, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from curtsies 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 curtsies produce 236 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.