curtsying needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 209 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
curtsying is the highest-scoring word from curtsying, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 209 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in curtsying — and it is curtsying itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in curtsying. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is scrutiny, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in curtsying produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cursing. For points, the strongest play is scrying — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling curtsying turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crying, curing, string, and trying. For points, the strongest plays are cringy and crying — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in curtsying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rings, ruins and rusty. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including tying, gusty and gutsy.
Rearranging the letters in curtsying produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with city, cuts and guns. For points, the strongest plays are city, cyst, scry, and sync — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling curtsying turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry, cut and gun. For points, the strongest plays are cry and icy — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in curtsying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in curtsying plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in curtsying and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
curtsying 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.
curtsying is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing curtsying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is curtsying, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from curtsying 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 curtsying produce 209 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.